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What we really want is to have good memories from even our lesser moments of bad or indifferent living.
I’m sure we all have, and more than once, been guilty of rewriting what really happened in our lives.
There
are a host of folk who take up homesteads in the valley of indecision,
water their flock at the river of procrastination, build their fences
with wood from the forest of false promises, get their seeds from the
market of the devil and then wonder why, when the harvest of memories is
gleaned, it is so full of hell.
How to avoid this?
Well…first, don’t treat your faith like a sundial! To understand that statement, let me share another story.
A
group of American young people, having learned of a tribe that were
quite primitive in their way of living and looking at life, wanted to
help bring them into this century.
These
people had little concept of time, other than night and day, so the
eager youths thought that if they could just get the concept of hours
over to them, they might become more industrious and improve their
lifestyle. And
after much discussion, they decided to send a sundial, for you see a
modern clock would require electricity and there was none, and batteries
would soon lose their power, and even an old fashioned spring-wound
clock would soon get rusty in their climate.
When the sundial arrived the natives were elated.
They beat their drums and danced with glee.
And then one of them made a suggestion. “Let us build an altar to place it on that raised pedestal that we might show respect for this present.” So they did.
And daily they treated the sundial with ever growing veneration.
Then they decided that it needed proper protection from the weather and as the sides of hut they were building grew taller and taller, less and less sun could make its way to their sundial.
And when they were finally finished, the roof totally blocked out the sun. But there, properly resting upon its throne, the sun dial was daily worshipped.
Of course, the sundial no longer worked.
And so it is back to my statement before this story.
Don’t treat your faith like a sundial.
Don’t cover it up with honor and respect while never taking it out into the stream of life.
Take it out where it will be tested. Give it the chance to grow in the midst of adversity. Shelter it and it will die or at the very least become a strangled, stringent shadow of what it otherwise might be.
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