Tuesday, September 25, 2012

A LEFT OVER GOD/Reaction or Response

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A threefold life?  Of course! 

There is that first stage of your life, only nine months long or there about.  A short but highly creative process in your mother’s womb. 

Your second stage, an unknown period of time with the earth beneath your feet.  A learning time.  A doing time.  A decision time.  A  time to dignify the process by what you become and what you give yourself to.  Dignify by not playing games with your soul.  Dignify with an honest gratitude that drives you to your knees before the throne of grace.

Your third stage, eternity.  And if you have truly believed the ultimate truth, “He who is the way, the truth and the light” then heaven, your final, eternal destination is the pay off.  “Yes, I do,” you said and meant it.  “Here I am,” replied the Lord, “living and dying for you.”  And He meant it. 

Three men were building a cathedral and each when asked what he was doing gave a different answer.

The first man said, “I am cutting stone.”

The second man said, “I am making a living.”

The third man said, “I am building a cathedral to the glory of God.”

Whatever you do in this life, whatever you say, whoever you are…let it not be a monument to the mundane, rather let it be to the glory of God.  Otherwise you may well mold your life with a left-over faith and you will then have what you deserve…a left-over God.

A businessman was in serious financial trouble.  His business had more cracks in it than Humpty Dumpty did after his great big fall.  His list of debts was long.  His list of assets had shrunken almost to the point of nonexistence. 

       As a last resort he knocked on his pastor’s door and once inside began to relate his sorrowful tale.  When he had finished, his pastor said, “This is what I want you to do.  I want you to go to your car, open up the back, put in a beach chair and your Bible.  Then drive to the beach.  Once you get there carry your beach chair and your Bible to the waters edge, sit there and wait for the wind to rifle the pages.  When finally your open Bible comes to rest on a page, look down at the page and read the first thing you see.  That will be your answer.  That will tell you what to do.”

A year later, for the man was not, to say the least, a regular church attendee, he returned to visit his minister and this time brought his wife and children with him.  He was decked out in a new, custom-tailored suit, his wife a luxurious mink coat and the children equally as prosperous in their dress.

“Ah,” said the pastor, “You did as I suggested?”

“I did, indeed,” came back the reply, “I went to the beach, put my beach chair down at the water’s edge, opened my Bible and waited for the wind to rifle its pages.”

“And?” pressed the pastor.

“Then I looked down and the first words I saw were ‘Chapter 11’.”

The attitude we bring to the Bible, to the God it describes, to His commandments and teachings, makes all the difference in the world.  And most appropriate to the just told tale, if we bring the wrong attitude we can indeed declare a spiritual Chapter 11.

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