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I know you want Gabriel’s bugle blast.
I know you want forgiveness for your sins.
I hope you also want a super strength to forgive others who have sinned against you. The kind of super forgiveness strength an old man waited over eighty years to finally seek and acquire. Tears streamed down his face as he related his tale.
“I was seven years old when my father died in a small private plane crash at a local airport. I had been out riding my bicycle and since I hadn’t gone back home, I didn’t know.
“One little boy who had always disliked me came riding by. “Your daddy is dead. Your daddy is dead. You don’t have a daddy anymore,” he gleefully taunted and rode away.
“That was how I learned about my father’s death. It is why I have been consumed with hate for this boy, now grown to be a man, all these years. We’re both old men now and it’s time I forgive him.”
And as we prayed, he did.
I hope you pray to Jesus to have the wisdom the Apostle Paul had when he wrote, “I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. (Phillipians 4:12)
Yes, pray not just for wisdom contentment, but patience with things as they are so that God can work all kind of miracles on our souls.
He was a lonely survivor on an uninhabited island and he was afraid. Wreckage lay strewn on the beach and from the bits and pieces he built a small hut. He foraged for food. It was not an easy existence but he managed to survive while he prayed that somehow a passing ship would discover him. He even piled wood high on the beach for a bonfire in anticipation.
Then one day, when he was many miles away from his hut, a great storm suddenly erupted. Lightning struck all around him and he feared for his life. When finally he returned to his hut he found that it had been struck by lightning and had burned down.
Lifting his eyes to the heavens he cried out, “God, how could you do this to me?” He then fell into a troubled sleep. Sometime later he was awakened by the sound of a boat full of men come to rescue him.
“How did you know I was here?” he asked.
“We saw your smoke signal,” came back the reply.
Are you seeking from Jesus to be well adjusted? I sometimes like to use well adjusted rather than the “blessed” referred to in the Beatitudes for if you are well adjusted, you are indeed blessed. “Well-adjusted are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. Well-adjusted are those who are peacemakers. Well-adjusted are the merciful. Well adjusted are… (Matthew 5:3-10)
Is that what you want from Jesus? The ability to be well-adjusted in your relationships with your fellowman? To be well-adjusted in mind, body and spirit? To be well-adjusted toward good and away from evil? To be well-adjusted enough “to have a sense of humor, the grace to see a joke, to get some happiness from life and pass it on to other folk.” (anonymous)
(TO BE CONTINUED NEXT THURSDAY)
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I know you want Gabriel’s bugle blast.
I know you want forgiveness for your sins.
I hope you also want a super strength to forgive others who have sinned against you. The kind of super forgiveness strength an old man waited over eighty years to finally seek and acquire. Tears streamed down his face as he related his tale.
“I was seven years old when my father died in a small private plane crash at a local airport. I had been out riding my bicycle and since I hadn’t gone back home, I didn’t know.
“One little boy who had always disliked me came riding by. “Your daddy is dead. Your daddy is dead. You don’t have a daddy anymore,” he gleefully taunted and rode away.
“That was how I learned about my father’s death. It is why I have been consumed with hate for this boy, now grown to be a man, all these years. We’re both old men now and it’s time I forgive him.”
And as we prayed, he did.
I hope you pray to Jesus to have the wisdom the Apostle Paul had when he wrote, “I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. (Phillipians 4:12)
Yes, pray not just for wisdom contentment, but patience with things as they are so that God can work all kind of miracles on our souls.
He was a lonely survivor on an uninhabited island and he was afraid. Wreckage lay strewn on the beach and from the bits and pieces he built a small hut. He foraged for food. It was not an easy existence but he managed to survive while he prayed that somehow a passing ship would discover him. He even piled wood high on the beach for a bonfire in anticipation.
Then one day, when he was many miles away from his hut, a great storm suddenly erupted. Lightning struck all around him and he feared for his life. When finally he returned to his hut he found that it had been struck by lightning and had burned down.
Lifting his eyes to the heavens he cried out, “God, how could you do this to me?” He then fell into a troubled sleep. Sometime later he was awakened by the sound of a boat full of men come to rescue him.
“How did you know I was here?” he asked.
“We saw your smoke signal,” came back the reply.
Are you seeking from Jesus to be well adjusted? I sometimes like to use well adjusted rather than the “blessed” referred to in the Beatitudes for if you are well adjusted, you are indeed blessed. “Well-adjusted are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. Well-adjusted are those who are peacemakers. Well-adjusted are the merciful. Well adjusted are… (Matthew 5:3-10)
Is that what you want from Jesus? The ability to be well-adjusted in your relationships with your fellowman? To be well-adjusted in mind, body and spirit? To be well-adjusted toward good and away from evil? To be well-adjusted enough “to have a sense of humor, the grace to see a joke, to get some happiness from life and pass it on to other folk.” (anonymous)
(TO BE CONTINUED NEXT THURSDAY)
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