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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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