ARE YOU AS CLOSE TO GOD AS YOU WANT TO BE?

 

If you want to share this blog with a friend go to the bottom of day’s content and click on TELL A FRIEND

GO TO NEIL’S OTHER BLOG ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS and read the following brain teasers.  CLICK ON URL BELOW There are over 800 stories and commentaries on this blog. It is added to daily.

http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/

Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

 This morning I want to introduce you to two people…and both of them are you – but the choice of which you are, God has left up to you.

To begin this introduction, I want you to imagine that it is tomorrow morning and YOU #1 has been away from home no more than five minutes when another one of those road hogs with piggish precision almost takes off your front bumper.

Of course, you lay on your horn.  And you honk again, but longer and louder this second time.  At the next traffic light you pull up beside his car and let him know, by all the unacceptable ways you know that you are angry with him.  That at that moment, a hanging or guillotine would be too good for him.

At work, still carrying this hot-under-the-collar mood, you are rude to customers or other office staff, or anyone who comes in contact with you.  The me-first, brutish behavior of the man in that car has ruined your day and you just can’t, or won’t, let go of it.

At the end of the day you slam the front door as you walk into your home and wearing a scowl fit for a King who has been crossed by another kingdom, you take out your lingering anger on your poor unsuspecting spouse.

That was the first you of the two of you.

 Now, let me introduce YOU #2.

Again imagine that it is tomorrow morning and you have been away from home no more than five minutes when another one of those road hogs with piggish precision almost takes off your front bumper.

Momentarily you start to lay on your horn but instead, you lay down a prayer, “Lord, save me from meeting brutish behavior with more of the same.” 

You’ve held your anger in check and you feel good about it.  This is who you are and who you have become. 

So you continue to pray for that individual in the other car: 

“Dear Lord, perhaps he’s just had an argument with his spouse.  Or maybe he’s always like this; rude and thoughtless and wearing a “me-first attitude” as if it were a crown and he were King of the Road.  Whatever is his problem, Lord, I pray for the both of us for life is too short for two angry individuals to act like fools.

And as a strange, wonderful kind of peace descends, you continue: “Thank you, Lord, for the privilege of my Christianity and my ability to sometimes act like that is what and who I am.”

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

Click on the URL below to WATCH NEIL IN HIS WORLD FAMOUS ONE MAN DRAMATIZATIONS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN, CHARLES WESLEY AND MARTIN LUTHER

       http://www.speakerneil.com/

       TO WATCH NEIL WYRICK IN HIS ONE MAN DRAMAS (Presented to millions all around the world) (Ben Franklin, Martin Luther, Charles Wesley and Abraham Lincoln (this Lincoln film takes 11 seconds to download but is worth the wait)

       

 CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING

 

http://www.speakerneil.com/

        

V. Neil Wyrick’s ninth book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN and is available at MAGNUS PRESS

 

DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED  BOOK BY Rev. Wyrick at Christmas time.

        

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM and amazon.com Kindle

 

OTHER BOOKS BY REV. WYRICK

available on Amazon.com

 

Poor Richard's Almanack for the 20th Century

Sixty Plus and Not Holding

Boundaries Unlimited

I Am

The ABC"s of Parenting and Grandparenting

Letters to America

 

http://www.magnuspress.com/OurProducts2.html