Sunday, December 13, 2015

CHRISTIANIITY BY REFLEX (Continuation)

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       CHRISTIANITY BY REFLEX (Contiinuation)

Acts 20:24

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me –the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.

 
The great French philosopher Montaigne put it this way, “A man who has not directed his life as a whole toward a definite goal cannot possibly set his particular actions in order. 

The archer must know what he is aiming at, and then set his hand, his bow, his strings, his arrow and his movements for that goal. 

Our plans go astray because they have no directions and no aim.  No wind serves the man who has no port of destination.”

Let me ask you some questions? 

Can you shoot  straight with a crooked arrow? 

I’m an old pilot who flew back in the time of wooden propellers and I always knew you couldn’t fly too well with a warped and imperfect prop. Fact is, if too warped it will shake loose and the plane will soon be making an emergency powerless landing.

The book of Proverbs (Proverbs 29:18) shouts with profound simplicity the following truth.  “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

Kagawa, working in the slums of Japan and being called “Christ’s fool” had a vision.

Martin Luther stood strong and tall with his beliefs as he said “Here I stand.” He had a vision.

Roger Bacon, carrying out his scientific experiments despite the threats of the inquisition, had a vision.

Paul Bunyan, writing “Pilgrim’s Progress” in a filthy jail, had a vision.

Our Founding Fathers had a vision. 

Those who marched with Martin Luther King in Birmingham and beyond had a vision. 

It’s been sixty years but I still remember the story.  It was all over the newspapers at the time.  A man and woman had begun early in the evening to argue.  At 3 AM, weary and worn, they were still bickering.

Finally the man went to sleep.

At which time the woman got a gun and shot him dead.

Her first visitor in jail was the father of the man she had killed, and his first words were, “I forgive you.” 

The next day it made the front pages.

Had he stood on the jail house steps and vowed vengeance, it might have made the last page of the newspaper or buried opposite the obituaries. 

Or received no notice at all. 

But Christian forgiveness under such circumstances?  Well now, when a Christian acts like it - that is news.

The agnostic H. G. Wells wrote the following, “Christianity will never work because Christ is too big for the little men and women he must work with.”

The sad fact is that many people never really expect Christians to act like it. 

The Prodigal Son finally got it right.  Filled with remorse.  Finally able and willing to face what he had become and what he must undo, he simply said, “Make me even as a hired servant.  Make me everything but what I was.”

One modern day philosopher put it well, “As a Christian, it is not your job to “whittle” sticks.  You are called to build temples.”  (Edgar De-Witt)
 
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