LESSEN YOUR BOREDOM TIME

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Let me share a story… …

As a woman finally finished reading a book, she closed it and sighed,  “That is the dullest book I have ever read.”

As the fickle finger of fate would have

it, she later met, fell in love with and married the man who had written the book she had been so bored with a few years before.

So she decided to read the book again.  This second reading produced a completely different impression.  She found it exciting and informative, and

could hardly put it down.

What had changed?  Not the author… but definitely the reader.

Because she now had a relationship with the author; loved the author and in the process proved the fact that love gives new meaning to anything and anybody…. even to life. 

That’s right…when you form a relationship with the author of your life…YOUR CREATOR…you will have a completely different attitude toward life.

Philippians 4:8 offers an antidote for boredom "Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." 

Indeed, think about these things…and then follow through and do them.

You are what you think.  Yes, what you think, is who you are. What you think

up to do…and be…and say, defines

you. 

Such as…

Are you compassionate toward another human being?  Really compassionate.  You can’t love people and treat them like you love them and be bored. 

Do you say the word “God” with so much enthusiasm it warms your soul? 

And what about the all out love Jesus talks about? …Practice it as against the normal human tendency towards dislike, greed, jealousy and all of like kin and kind…and who you then become is, to say the least, certainly not boring.

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DO YOU BELIEVE IN EASTER?

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It isn't Easter but the core of our faith is the resurrected Lord that links with the eternal throne of grace and since it is a message timeless I wanted to write about it here and now in this month of July

        On Sunday they laid palm fronds at His feet.  On Friday they killed Him.  On Sunday He rose from the dead.  It was a busy week. 

        The execution came courtesy of the state.  The resurrection courtesy of the courts of heaven.

        “Truly, this was the Son of god.” Cried out a group of centurions when the crucifixion ended.  Across town, deep inside the veiled halls of the Temple the curtain to the Holy of Holies was torn in two.

        Something important was happening.  But then it had been happening for a long, long time.  He was only twelve years old when he “wowed them in the temple.  The Bible uses the term confounded them.  I think “Wow!” is much more appropriate. 

        After that He did take a three decade hiatus but when he next burst upon the scene, He did so with gusto. When John the Baptist baptized others it was just a baptism.  When He baptized Jesus the event got heavenly acclaim.  “This is my Son in whom I am well pleased.”

        And who was there to hear it?  You and me, well really our ancestors in the great family of man.  It has always been this way.  Sometimes shouting hallelujahs at baptism time, and thanksgiving prayers when miracles happened and cheering Jesus presence with palm fronds and then changing their minds and cursing Him at Golgotha or fading back into the woodwork for safeties sake. 

When Palm Sunday came Jesus came into His annual glory time.  Just like 2000 years ago.  And it lasted through Easter.  And then 365 days less a week passed before its palm frond time again.  We do that, don’t we, wander in and out of the life of Christ.  In and out.  In and out.  Too often out.  Too seldom in.  And it is such a shame.  For there is such a timeless benefit to having Christ around 52 weeks out of the year.

        Who is this Jesus we believe in and forget so easily?  John’s gospel tells us He was sent because God loved the world.  Then Jesus says He is going to die to save we people in this world.  It’s not really that complicated.  It’s a one/two theological punch of truth that only a fool or an idiot can fail to understand.

        Did you have breakfast before you this morning?  Why?  The answer is obvious.  You were hungry.  But funny thing is, if you missed breakfast, lunch and dinner, and did the same thing tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, after not that many days you wouldn’t be hungry anymore.

        Which is how it with faith feeding.  If you don’t sit down one day you wake up and find you no longer have a real spiritual hunger.  You may remember how once it was on some long ago yesterday, but that’s what it is…a long ago yesterday.

        Whatever brought you here this morning, one of the reasons is that cars and clothes and a nice home and good food and all the other etceteras are nice but you can never get away from the nagging question “Is this all there is to life?”

ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A MAN...AND ANOTHER MAN. (Continuation)..

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Take the wonder of birth – and all the years following called life.  You and I have because of the amalgamation of a tiny sperm and egg.  Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual soul-fed human beings living out our existence on a

spinning globe in an unbelievably complicated and endless universe.

Some of you may have had a mustard seed moment, or are waiting for your mustard seed moment when the following is true –

I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew

he moved my soul to seek him, seeking me;

It was not I that found, oh Savior true;

No, I was found of thee.

        Do you believe God can make the impossible possible in your life?  I hope so.  I pray so.  I pray you have read the following scriptures and have been ready to have them speak to you.

In Mark 9:23 we are told , “Anything is possible if a person believes…”

And John 1:12 tells us that to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God.

And again He tells us in John 3:16, “…For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”

        In the frigid waters around Greenland are countless icebergs, some little and some gigantic.  If you would observe them carefully, you’d notice that sometimes the small ice floes move in one direction while their massive counterparts flow in another.

The explanation is simple. Surface winds drive the little ones, whereas the huge masses of ice are carried along by deep ocean currents.

And so it is when we are moved by the eternal depth of God’s teaching and God’s presence and God’s power - we are no longer moved by shallow, everyday surface winds.  The shallow life is behind us and our lives now run deep.

What I am talking about is finding and holding on to, and giving thanks for, the best life possible.  A new soul deep person who shows it in word and deed.

This can be you.  It can happen if you don’t stand in a ditch of despair and allow yourself to wallow there and not try to lift yourself out of that ditch by persistent prayer.

It can be you if you don’t live in the shadows rather than in the sunlight and take up permanent residence there.  But not if your eyes that once shone with hope and are now dull with hopelessness.  And not if you are content to crawl rather than climb; content to slog rather than soar.

It takes a brave and unrelenting faith to stay on the high road.  It takes getting up when you fall down, and though stumbling again, getting up again and staying up a little longer.

All the time echoing the Apostle Paul’s words right up to your last day on earth, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”  (II Timothy 4:7)

That's Paul shouting at you down through the ages that the seemingly impossible is possible, it sometimes just takes awhile. 

 

And that by persistent patience and prayer, lots of them.

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Revelations 3:15-17 KJV

I know your works; you are neither cold nor hot.

Would that you were cold or hot!

 So, because you are lukewarm,

neither cold nor hot,

I will to spew you out of my mouth. 

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered,

and I need nothing;

not knowing that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

In the first century, John, one of the 12 Disciples and writer of Revelations, was discouraged with the church at Laodicea, disgusted might be a better word because they were dead in the water and making no effort to resurrect.

      Nor was the Lord happy with their enthusiasm hiatus.

      Therefore through John, the Lord, spoke to their love affair with the inconsequential, "…because you are lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth."

      They weren’t suffering from negativism or positivism…for those are active traits.  Rather, they were suffering from an abundance of apathy… too bored to care about anything…they were bogged down in emotional limbo.

      Why?  

       Why would anyone chose this malady of the mind?  Why would anyone pass by the offer Christ makes, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it abundantly” (John 10:10 KJV).

      Why would anyone want to feed on lethargy and sup on doldrums till their life is tired and grey with boredom?

Who would one thoughtfully invite monotony to come to call, and perhaps become  a permanent part of their daily living? 

      No one, you would probably answer, but yes, there are a ton of somebody’s who do just that on a regular basis…say ”No” to every new opportunity…

      “What do you believe in?” a man was asked.  And without a pause he replied, “A little bit of everything and anything.”

      He probably considered himself a very open-minded individual, but in fact he was explaining why he was really open ended.  Everything and anything flowing in and out with little thought or concern.

      Do you know what the Greek origin for the word enthusiasm means?  Possessed by God.  Being filled with God.” For when you are possessed by God, and filled with God…all of you wants the best for you…and nothing less. 

      And once you’ve reached that point, then you actually will have more energy to accomplish so much more of what God’s world offers.  And I know I am telling many of you what you already know.

      We are essentially made up of three parts: the mental, the physical and the spiritual.  And to ignore any of these three is to set up a pattern of living that can easily become like a can of lukewarm Coke – Unsatisfying.  Undesirable.  Boring.

      Allow me to put to you some questions.

Do you exercise your mind every day?  Not occasionally.  Not ere now and then.  But every day.   Strengthening your brain so you think better, sharper?  Many scientists say dementia and Alzheimers is allergic to a mind being pushed to its limits.

Stop Alzheimers by mind exercises… no…slow it down…yes.

Enough scientists say yes for me not to ignore it.

Do you exercise your body regularly to keep it from becoming shrunken and run down and flabby?  Don’t want to,you say…it eats time…no doubt about it…it is time consuming.  But what were you going to do during that 30 minutes you might be exercising… that was more important?

      Do you exercise your soul by more often communicating with God thereby strengthening your understanding of and relationship with Him who created you? Do you think it is good to never think about your soul?

Or do you consider exercising, of any kind, so boring you do as little of it as possible?  

      I think that almost everyone would admit to the truth of the following statement … that if you become enthusiastic about keeping all parts of the earthly “temple” God gave you in good shape, it can be exciting.  Certainly not boring.

(TO BE CONTINUED)

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It says in 2^nd Corinthians 5:17: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.  The old has passed away; behold the new has come.

Why go to the trouble?  Why not just drift with the tide or go with the flow?  Because you are more than a stick of wood.  You are a creation of Almighty God and you owe it to yourself and to your God to be the very best you you can be.

If your life is to have meaning, you must have something TO DO, something TO LOVE, and something TO HOPE FOR.  Otherwise you may well spend your life whining rather than winning the race.  And a wasted life is like a giant tear that never stops flowing.

To make life worthwhile, you need to be a traveler rather than a tourist.  You must, in a positive, God-driven way, participate in the process of life rather than just stand on the sidelines and watch as the opportunities pass you by.

We have a choice:  victory or victim-hood.  And when we choose victory through God, therein lays the force of focus:  a spiritual grounding, a new appreciation of time and our obligation to it.  Someone has wisely observed, “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the places and moments that take our breath away.” 

     Jeremiah 17:7-8 put wings on the following thoughts and we should learn to fly with them.

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence is in him.
He will be like a tree planted by the Water
that sends out its roots to the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.

 

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