These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
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Matt 5:41
Whosoever shall compel thee to go one mile, go with him two.
Like so much of scripture, it helps to hop aboard a time machine and stand in the midst of the culture of 2000 years ago. Stand in the crowd listening to Jesus make this monumental comment. Understand how and why He really was pushing the envelope.
You see, at that time,
Under Roman law a Roman soldier could compel a Jew to carry his burden for him one mile wherever he told him to walk. It didn’t matter if the Jew had other plans in a different direction or was short of time. It was all quite simple. The Roman said “Do it” and there was no room for negotiation.
And then into this dilemma steps Jesus with His unusual logic and fine-tuned way of living. In so many words He says, “Oh yes, there is room to negotiate. It’s just that I want you to negotiate to more, not less.”
You want utter madness? This, to his listeners, was certainly getting close. It was frustrating enough to have to obey the Romans in the first place, but to offer, of their own free will, to do more?
Incredible!
A Jew might feel like giving the Roman a fist full of knuckles and a belly full of contempt, but bottom line…he reached down, lifted up and began his required 5,280 foot journey. Oh, he could refuse if he wanted free room and board in the local jail, but that didn’t make a lot of sense. So what Jesus was saying to them was either totally crazy or first class advice.
Leave it to the Master. He knew what He was talking about. He knew that every step of that first mile, carrying that ordered burden, produced an ever increasing amount of resentment. It had to. It was a loss of control.
Therefore, Jesus wasn’t saying - don’t get mad, get even; rather He was emphasizing gain back control. Carry the load a second mile because you have volunteered to do so. Now that second mile is your decision. Your exercise of free will. The first mile is a burden – both physically and emotionally, but when you volunteer the second mile it is only a physical burden. Your physical burden by choice – now you are in charge.
Unfortunately, human nature, in any century, is often much more inclined to do less not more. Ready to take more often than to give. People don’t want to be put upon, and laziness comes naturally.
And then smack dab into the middle of these psychological hang ups Jesus drops a bombshell, “Whosoever shall compel thee to go one mile, go with him two.”
I doubt if many of you have ever run a two mile race. It is not a distance one should run without sufficient training. Yet when I ran track in college, it was my favorite distance and one of the reasons was that my second wind would kick in. One minute, I was running out of steam and then suddenly I felt like I was running with the wind. I believe this is what Jesus was talking about.
Of course, not a second mile measured in feet, but a second spiritual mile in which one receives a Spiritual second wind. You see, as one champion distance runner put it, “You run the first mile with your legs, the second mile with your heart.”
So let’s make a spiritually logical leap and apply this to every day living. Have you ever met someone who upon first meeting you realized the chemistry just wasn’t there?
Your first mile wasn’t too much of a success in setting up a relationship. Fact of the matter, it was a burden. You may even have prayed a short prayer, “Lord, I’m going to need some help with this one.”
But then you stuck with it, reached out with Christian charity that let you look and listen a little more closely. Looking and listening for some good chemistry which you were determined to find.
Something about the person you could like. And you found it. And then you found other goodly things. You went the second mile and you found it, and now you had a new friend.
The world is full of people who try to get by with as little as they possibly can - never extending themselves. The worker who nails no more nails, fixes no more motors, paints no more doors than he has to. The clock-watcher who works only for the gold he can get, rather than for the glory he or she can give.
First-mile-people complaining every foot of the way. Speak to them about a second mile, extra effort and they will look at you as if they think you are from another planet.
The mother who complains about her motherhood and makes it clear to her child that she believes he or she is a burden.
Mother Theresa went the second mile. The first mile was just being a nun, and compared to the second mile that was easy. So what did she do? She walked a second mile of additional sacrifice.
The Founding Fathers of our country sacrificed comfort, wealth and family to lead a young America to the shores of freedom.
Albert Sweitzer could have basked in fame as a renowned European musician. Instead he chose a second mile that led him to darkest Africa as a missionary.
Second miles put muscles on their soul. Second-mile-people put a smile on the face of heaven.
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SOME RECENT TITLES
Nov 25…GETTING SOMEWHERE AND FINDING OUT YOU DON’T WANT TO STAY
Nov 17…ARE YOU HAVING INSTALLATION PROBLEMS?
Nov 14…WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE BEST TWO WORDS IN YOUR VOCABULARY?
Nov 13…WHAT SHOULD YOU DO THAT ONE DAY YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT NOW YOU CAN DO?
Have a friend visit my ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS site. Have them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
ARE YOU A SPIRITUAL ANOREXIC? ARE YOU READY WITH READINESS?
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If you can buy it in a store, wear it on the street, drive it on the highway, watch it in the family room or eat it till you’ve had your fill, isn’t that enough? Feed the body, medicate it against as many illnesses as possible, exercise its muscles and mind, and what else is there?
Well now, that’s where the rub comes in, whether this business of the eternal soul has something worth considering.
Some shout yes, and claim a bright and shining faith. Some hesitantly admit that when eternity comes to call they need to be better prepared. Few want to confess to having a faith that is tattle-tale grey because there isn’t a great deal of readiness in the title.
Still, the numbers are there of those who shrug their shoulders and say that tomorrow is soon enough to worry about it. I mean, after all “There is still tomorrow to get it all done isn’t there.”
Well, yes and no, depending on how much of tomorrow each of us can count on. And it isn’t just about heaven after death. It is also about improving one’s ability to deal with the vicissitudes here on earth.
Eventually, and sometimes sooner than later, the calendar gets rather heavy on both physical and spiritual shoulders.
And so physical exercise is needed to build the body, mental exercise to build the mind and spiritual exercise to build the soul just happens to make good sense.
The reason many want to wait before they get serious about their faith is the same as the misconceptions we sometimes have in other areas.
We cannot fully appreciate health until we have been really sick. Nor truly appreciate cleanliness until we have experienced filth. Nor understand spiritual malnutrition until one day, hopefully not too late, spiritual anorexia is recognized and something is done about it.
Whether in hamlets, cities or country-sides, few people have an occupation that automatically takes care of all three parts of man. At least one of the three gets pushed to the side.
And few would argue that being out of shape is good, so many don’t argue they just make excuses, or don’t even do that. Some, with complete candor just say, “Get off my back.”
In my first pastorate, one small town church and three country churches, most of my parishioners were farmers. As far as physical exercise went, they got it in bucketfuls.
As for things of the spirit, there is something about daily working with green and growing things that calls great attention to the fact of God. When it came to their mental development, some did…some didn’t.
That was an area of choice. An area of self-discipline. And self-discipline, well, it just got squeezed out between the “I oughta” and “I don’t wanna.” Happens all the time.
I will not ask this day about your mind and body, but what shape is your soul in? Well, if it is a weak and festering thing, pale and tattle-tale grey, one day when you go looking for spiritual strength will it be available.
I have not seen one of them, but I have read about movies put together so different endings can be chosen. It is a computer kind of thing but it is a fascinating idea because it demands a changing of the script.
The characters have to react differently to what is happening in order to change the ending.
If faith and repentance and regeneration, perhaps under different names, come into play, then of course the endings of our REAL lives change.
So, take the script of your own life. If along the way you had reacted differently to certain things, consider how the whole script of your life would have been altered. It is a WHAT IF game we all have played.
What would have happened if you had done this or that? Gone here or there? Met this person or that person rather than ones you did meet? You have chosen certain people as your friends, a certain pattern of life to follow, whether to make God number one or further down the list.
My email messages come through Earthlink which has a delightful program called Spam Blocker. It blocks all kind of email messages I have no interest in and which might create for me and my computer harm. In the real world our faith can be considered our personal Spam Blockers.
We live in a changing culture and it is constantly sending us messages and spiritual and moral viruses, and if we don’t block them they do take hold. And they don’t let go. They certainly don’t do that.
There is an old saying, Where we love, we live. Then it follows that if we love God, really love Him enough to follow His commandments, our lives will reflect it.
POSTED RECENTLY ON ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Nov 25…GETTING SOMEWHERE AND FINDING OUT YOU DON’T WANT TO STAY
Nov 17…ARE YOU HAVING INSTALLATION PROBLEMS?
Nov 14…WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE BEST TWO WORDS IN YOUR VOCABULARY?
Nov 13…WHAT SHOULD YOU DO THAT ONE DAY YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT NOW YOU CAN DO?
Have a friend visit my ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS site. Have them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
If you can buy it in a store, wear it on the street, drive it on the highway, watch it in the family room or eat it till you’ve had your fill, isn’t that enough? Feed the body, medicate it against as many illnesses as possible, exercise its muscles and mind, and what else is there?
Well now, that’s where the rub comes in, whether this business of the eternal soul has something worth considering.
Some shout yes, and claim a bright and shining faith. Some hesitantly admit that when eternity comes to call they need to be better prepared. Few want to confess to having a faith that is tattle-tale grey because there isn’t a great deal of readiness in the title.
Still, the numbers are there of those who shrug their shoulders and say that tomorrow is soon enough to worry about it. I mean, after all “There is still tomorrow to get it all done isn’t there.”
Well, yes and no, depending on how much of tomorrow each of us can count on. And it isn’t just about heaven after death. It is also about improving one’s ability to deal with the vicissitudes here on earth.
Eventually, and sometimes sooner than later, the calendar gets rather heavy on both physical and spiritual shoulders.
And so physical exercise is needed to build the body, mental exercise to build the mind and spiritual exercise to build the soul just happens to make good sense.
The reason many want to wait before they get serious about their faith is the same as the misconceptions we sometimes have in other areas.
We cannot fully appreciate health until we have been really sick. Nor truly appreciate cleanliness until we have experienced filth. Nor understand spiritual malnutrition until one day, hopefully not too late, spiritual anorexia is recognized and something is done about it.
Whether in hamlets, cities or country-sides, few people have an occupation that automatically takes care of all three parts of man. At least one of the three gets pushed to the side.
And few would argue that being out of shape is good, so many don’t argue they just make excuses, or don’t even do that. Some, with complete candor just say, “Get off my back.”
In my first pastorate, one small town church and three country churches, most of my parishioners were farmers. As far as physical exercise went, they got it in bucketfuls.
As for things of the spirit, there is something about daily working with green and growing things that calls great attention to the fact of God. When it came to their mental development, some did…some didn’t.
That was an area of choice. An area of self-discipline. And self-discipline, well, it just got squeezed out between the “I oughta” and “I don’t wanna.” Happens all the time.
I will not ask this day about your mind and body, but what shape is your soul in? Well, if it is a weak and festering thing, pale and tattle-tale grey, one day when you go looking for spiritual strength will it be available.
I have not seen one of them, but I have read about movies put together so different endings can be chosen. It is a computer kind of thing but it is a fascinating idea because it demands a changing of the script.
The characters have to react differently to what is happening in order to change the ending.
If faith and repentance and regeneration, perhaps under different names, come into play, then of course the endings of our REAL lives change.
So, take the script of your own life. If along the way you had reacted differently to certain things, consider how the whole script of your life would have been altered. It is a WHAT IF game we all have played.
What would have happened if you had done this or that? Gone here or there? Met this person or that person rather than ones you did meet? You have chosen certain people as your friends, a certain pattern of life to follow, whether to make God number one or further down the list.
My email messages come through Earthlink which has a delightful program called Spam Blocker. It blocks all kind of email messages I have no interest in and which might create for me and my computer harm. In the real world our faith can be considered our personal Spam Blockers.
We live in a changing culture and it is constantly sending us messages and spiritual and moral viruses, and if we don’t block them they do take hold. And they don’t let go. They certainly don’t do that.
There is an old saying, Where we love, we live. Then it follows that if we love God, really love Him enough to follow His commandments, our lives will reflect it.
POSTED RECENTLY ON ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Nov 25…GETTING SOMEWHERE AND FINDING OUT YOU DON’T WANT TO STAY
Nov 17…ARE YOU HAVING INSTALLATION PROBLEMS?
Nov 14…WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE BEST TWO WORDS IN YOUR VOCABULARY?
Nov 13…WHAT SHOULD YOU DO THAT ONE DAY YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT NOW YOU CAN DO?
Have a friend visit my ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS site. Have them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
DON'T PUT YOUR NEIGHBORS IN THE COOKING POT
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I like to watch the evening news. When the kids were growing up we seldom saw the evening news because we made a habit of eating together, and talking together and sharing together. Things weren’t quite as hectic in those days (1960’s) with kids going in fifty million directions and so most of the time we managed it. But what we always managed was what I called Thanksgiving Time.
Everyone, each child and we parents too, had to share something good about someone we knew, being specific about what had happened that day. Put ourselves in a state of thanksgiving for the good in people. No one was allowed to say anything bad about anyone. We would not have boiled and fried neighbors, friends or strangers as part of our evening meal.
"Try to find out what would please the Lord; take no part in the barren deeds of darkness, but show them up for what they are." (Eph 5:10,11).
POSTED RECENTLY ON ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Nov 17…ARE YOU HAVING INSTALLATION PROBLEMS?
Nov 14…WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE BEST TWO WORDS IN YOUR VOCABULARY?
Nov 13…WHAT SHOULD YOU DO THAT ONE DAY YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT NOW YOU CAN DO?
Have a friend visit my ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS site. Have them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
I like to watch the evening news. When the kids were growing up we seldom saw the evening news because we made a habit of eating together, and talking together and sharing together. Things weren’t quite as hectic in those days (1960’s) with kids going in fifty million directions and so most of the time we managed it. But what we always managed was what I called Thanksgiving Time.
Everyone, each child and we parents too, had to share something good about someone we knew, being specific about what had happened that day. Put ourselves in a state of thanksgiving for the good in people. No one was allowed to say anything bad about anyone. We would not have boiled and fried neighbors, friends or strangers as part of our evening meal.
"Try to find out what would please the Lord; take no part in the barren deeds of darkness, but show them up for what they are." (Eph 5:10,11).
POSTED RECENTLY ON ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Nov 17…ARE YOU HAVING INSTALLATION PROBLEMS?
Nov 14…WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE BEST TWO WORDS IN YOUR VOCABULARY?
Nov 13…WHAT SHOULD YOU DO THAT ONE DAY YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT NOW YOU CAN DO?
Have a friend visit my ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS site. Have them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
ARE YOU A SPIRITUAL ANOREXIC?
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
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(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
When you get hungry and sit down to eat breakfast, lunch or dinner do you praise yourself for such intelligent behavior? Do you expect to get a letter of appreciation from your doctor?
Do you expect people to stop you on the street and congratulate you for not being physically anorexic? Of course not. You eat because you are hungry. It is natural. It is giving into a biological craving. You don’t eat - your body starves.
When you bow your head in prayer do you praise yourself for such intelligent behavior? Do you expect to get a letter of congratulations from your pastor?
Do you expect people to stop you on the street and congratulate you for not being a spiritual anorexic? Of course not. You pray because your soul is hungry. It is natural. It is giving into an ethereal craving. You don’t pray - your soul starves.
Yet people starve their bodies and their souls all the time. Decide that if thin is good, then super thin is better. Decide if dieting is helpful, then eating almost nothing makes super sense.
And whether it is food for the body or food for the spirit one thing is for sure, not eating well guarantees malnutrition. It is why there are bodies that are too skinny and souls that are too skinny, and spiritual and physical health that is bad then becomes worse.
The late Peter Marshall once prayed, “O Lord, forgive us for thinking that prayer is a waste of time, and help us to see that without prayer our work is a waste of time.”
I remember what an old unknown philosopher once wrote, “hunger would never have continued without food, nor breathing without air, nor intellectual life without truth, nor prayer without God.”
Many decades ago, when Scotland was a place of treachery, betrayal, murder and immorality, a man named John Knox fell to his knees on the dock of the port of St. Andrews. Kneeling there, he prayed. And his prayer, so deeply, so fervently felt was a cry of spiritual agony, “God, give me Scotland or I die.”
And on that day the ears of God reverberated with the sincerity and depth of what He heard, and God GAVE Scotland to John Knox. A land and its people He gave him. And Scotland began to change.
Before that prayer, to say Scotland was to speak of a country where evil was too often King. Before that prayer, to be a Scotsman, which many of my ancestors were, was something to be ashamed of.
But after that heavenly petition, after God opened a curtain of opportunity, a Scotsman could be proud. Because after that prayer, Scotland stood for integrity, morality , honesty, and hard work and diligence.
“It was only a prayer,” some would say. But a prayer well prayed cannot only move mountains, it can build them and then move them. “On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth,” said Billy Graham. “A good prayer shapes nations.
"Try to find out what would please the Lord; take no part in the barren deeds of darkness, but show them up for what they are." (Eph 5:10,11).
POSTED RECENTLY ON ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Nov 22…BEEN THROWING ANY DARTS RECENTLY?
Nov 19…WHAT DOES THE LATEST EDITION OF YOU LOOK LIKE?
Nov 17…ARE YOU HAVING INSTALLATION PROBLEMS?
Nov 14…WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE BEST TWO WORDS IN YOUR VOCABULARY?
Nov 22…BEEN THROWING ANY DARTS RECENTLY?
Have a friend visit my ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS site. Have them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
When you get hungry and sit down to eat breakfast, lunch or dinner do you praise yourself for such intelligent behavior? Do you expect to get a letter of appreciation from your doctor?
Do you expect people to stop you on the street and congratulate you for not being physically anorexic? Of course not. You eat because you are hungry. It is natural. It is giving into a biological craving. You don’t eat - your body starves.
When you bow your head in prayer do you praise yourself for such intelligent behavior? Do you expect to get a letter of congratulations from your pastor?
Do you expect people to stop you on the street and congratulate you for not being a spiritual anorexic? Of course not. You pray because your soul is hungry. It is natural. It is giving into an ethereal craving. You don’t pray - your soul starves.
Yet people starve their bodies and their souls all the time. Decide that if thin is good, then super thin is better. Decide if dieting is helpful, then eating almost nothing makes super sense.
And whether it is food for the body or food for the spirit one thing is for sure, not eating well guarantees malnutrition. It is why there are bodies that are too skinny and souls that are too skinny, and spiritual and physical health that is bad then becomes worse.
The late Peter Marshall once prayed, “O Lord, forgive us for thinking that prayer is a waste of time, and help us to see that without prayer our work is a waste of time.”
I remember what an old unknown philosopher once wrote, “hunger would never have continued without food, nor breathing without air, nor intellectual life without truth, nor prayer without God.”
Many decades ago, when Scotland was a place of treachery, betrayal, murder and immorality, a man named John Knox fell to his knees on the dock of the port of St. Andrews. Kneeling there, he prayed. And his prayer, so deeply, so fervently felt was a cry of spiritual agony, “God, give me Scotland or I die.”
And on that day the ears of God reverberated with the sincerity and depth of what He heard, and God GAVE Scotland to John Knox. A land and its people He gave him. And Scotland began to change.
Before that prayer, to say Scotland was to speak of a country where evil was too often King. Before that prayer, to be a Scotsman, which many of my ancestors were, was something to be ashamed of.
But after that heavenly petition, after God opened a curtain of opportunity, a Scotsman could be proud. Because after that prayer, Scotland stood for integrity, morality , honesty, and hard work and diligence.
“It was only a prayer,” some would say. But a prayer well prayed cannot only move mountains, it can build them and then move them. “On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth,” said Billy Graham. “A good prayer shapes nations.
"Try to find out what would please the Lord; take no part in the barren deeds of darkness, but show them up for what they are." (Eph 5:10,11).
POSTED RECENTLY ON ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Nov 22…BEEN THROWING ANY DARTS RECENTLY?
Nov 19…WHAT DOES THE LATEST EDITION OF YOU LOOK LIKE?
Nov 17…ARE YOU HAVING INSTALLATION PROBLEMS?
Nov 14…WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE BEST TWO WORDS IN YOUR VOCABULARY?
Nov 22…BEEN THROWING ANY DARTS RECENTLY?
Have a friend visit my ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS site. Have them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY?
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
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History tells us there really were cities called Sodom and Gomorrah, Ninevah and Babylon, and these places would certainly not have been on a best-places-to-live list. History relates the pillaging of Rome, and later the rape of this new continent by Spanish Conquistadors. Our country’s history is unfortunately filled with a trail of Indian tears, and slavery and civil rights denied.
More recent world history tells us about men named Adolph Hitler and Milosovich, Sadaam Hussein and unfortunately hundreds of others. Maybe at some time all these men asked themselves the question, “Who am I?” or maybe they didn’t. But if they did, they couldn’t quote from the book of Proverbs, “Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people,” and have it apply to them.
When it comes to identification, none of these people can be called a joy for God to behold. Some people are worthy of the lives God has given them, and some are not. Some are a healing. Some are a hurt. Most are somewhere in between. Who are you? Who am I? It is not an idle question, not an idle question at all.
And all this begs the question, can one improve? The answer, of course, is YES!
Because yes, we don’t have to allow ourselves to be caught up in a “repetition game” making the same dumb, stupid, hard headed mistakes over and over again.
I’ve prayed, pondered and personally proved, at least to myself, that God is a power-pack that can shape our personality in a better direction. Indeed, someone has written a hymn about it, “It is no secret what God can do.”
Yet, people continue to act as if His spiritual-power-pack is a little known revelation: a wisdom to be ignored, or a half-heartedly accepted truth.
Therefore remember His power point words, “Ask and it shall be given you.” And do not just bask in the truth of it, but put legs on the idea and run with it.
Sit in on God’s class of heavenly teachings. Don’t just monitor the course, take the tests. What it will do to improve your collection of weaknesses will make your head swim and your thanksgiving swagger. Prove that being born again is a multi-directional opportunity that can touch mind, body and soul. Because you see:
There is biology by which we can study the living cells.
There is psychology by which we can probe the id and the ego.
There is physiology by which we can study the function of bodily organs.
And then there is theology by which we can study and influence our relationship with God. And if you really study God, you are also studying yourself. Or as one man put it, “As God became more real, I seemed to become more real. As I began to know more about God, I began to understand more about myself.”
POSTED RECENTLY ON ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
Nov 17…ARE YOU HAVING INSTALLATION PROBLEMS?
Nov 14…WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE BEST TWO WORDS IN YOUR VOCABULARY?
Nov 13…WHAT SHOULD YOU DO THAT ONE DAY YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT NOW YOU CAN DO?
Have a friend visit my ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS site. Have them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
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History tells us there really were cities called Sodom and Gomorrah, Ninevah and Babylon, and these places would certainly not have been on a best-places-to-live list. History relates the pillaging of Rome, and later the rape of this new continent by Spanish Conquistadors. Our country’s history is unfortunately filled with a trail of Indian tears, and slavery and civil rights denied.
More recent world history tells us about men named Adolph Hitler and Milosovich, Sadaam Hussein and unfortunately hundreds of others. Maybe at some time all these men asked themselves the question, “Who am I?” or maybe they didn’t. But if they did, they couldn’t quote from the book of Proverbs, “Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people,” and have it apply to them.
When it comes to identification, none of these people can be called a joy for God to behold. Some people are worthy of the lives God has given them, and some are not. Some are a healing. Some are a hurt. Most are somewhere in between. Who are you? Who am I? It is not an idle question, not an idle question at all.
And all this begs the question, can one improve? The answer, of course, is YES!
Because yes, we don’t have to allow ourselves to be caught up in a “repetition game” making the same dumb, stupid, hard headed mistakes over and over again.
I’ve prayed, pondered and personally proved, at least to myself, that God is a power-pack that can shape our personality in a better direction. Indeed, someone has written a hymn about it, “It is no secret what God can do.”
Yet, people continue to act as if His spiritual-power-pack is a little known revelation: a wisdom to be ignored, or a half-heartedly accepted truth.
Therefore remember His power point words, “Ask and it shall be given you.” And do not just bask in the truth of it, but put legs on the idea and run with it.
Sit in on God’s class of heavenly teachings. Don’t just monitor the course, take the tests. What it will do to improve your collection of weaknesses will make your head swim and your thanksgiving swagger. Prove that being born again is a multi-directional opportunity that can touch mind, body and soul. Because you see:
There is biology by which we can study the living cells.
There is psychology by which we can probe the id and the ego.
There is physiology by which we can study the function of bodily organs.
And then there is theology by which we can study and influence our relationship with God. And if you really study God, you are also studying yourself. Or as one man put it, “As God became more real, I seemed to become more real. As I began to know more about God, I began to understand more about myself.”
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Nov 13…WHAT SHOULD YOU DO THAT ONE DAY YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT NOW YOU CAN DO?
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Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
IS TATTLETALE GREY YOUR FAVORITE COLOR?
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Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th century German philosopher and no matter how you look at it, his bottom line was that God was not a part of his working philosophy. This attitude brought him to the point where he slept every night with a loaded revolver under his pillow and refused to trust a barber enough to allow one to cut his hair.
He was a miserable, selfish, bitter, fearful man right up to and including his dying day. An agnostic who had chosen to live in a theological limbo-land.
Another man one day wrote the following. “In the visible world the Milky Way is a tiny fragment. Within this fragment the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot tiny lumps of impure carbon and water crawl about for a few years, until they dissolve into the elements of which they are compounded.”
And so having written this he continued, “Therefore, what could be more logical than suicide?” And having asked the question, he did it.
H. L. Mencken, one of the most well known atheistic pessimists of all time, wrote, “Life is a business that doesn’t cover expenses. The only honest wish man can have is that of absolute annihilation.”
Such comments flow quite naturally from those who do not believe that “In the beginning God created…” or are not terribly impressed with the fact. Or who again and again cry out, “I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.”
It does make a difference what one believes, and how much and mightily one believes: the absolute void of absolute doubt, or the powerful presence and strength of absolute faith. Or, the in-between of tattle-tale gray.
“Even the irreligious cannot argue about the power of religion. Why? Because this whole business about the relationship between God and man is not just a social, cultural, political or ideological factor; it is personal. Through and through, it is you and your Creator with only two tags attached. The one reading Created and the other Creator.” (rewrite of ideas in the preface to the book Rediscovering Religion)
The writer Katherine Logan wrote, “If a vision is of God then it is a vision that comes in advance of a task well done.” (rewritten)
Let me put it yet another way, “Vision without a task is a dream; task without a vision is drudgery; vision with a task is the hope of the world.”
What is your vision?
If you are a preacher you see life as a sermon.
If you are a miser you see life as money.
If you are a loafer you see life as one life-long resting time.
If you are a soldier you see life as battle.
If you are a teacher you see life as a school where you both learn and teach.
Ah, life is a great thing for the thinker, but it’s a folly to the fool.
Life is just one long vacation to the man who loves his work,
But it’s a constant dodging of duty to the ever lasting shirk.
To the faithful, earnest person, life’s a story ever new.
Where there is no vision, the people perish…” says the book of Proverbs. (29:18)
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Nov 13…WHAT SHOULD YOU DO THAT ONE DAY YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT NOW YOU CAN DO?
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And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
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Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th century German philosopher and no matter how you look at it, his bottom line was that God was not a part of his working philosophy. This attitude brought him to the point where he slept every night with a loaded revolver under his pillow and refused to trust a barber enough to allow one to cut his hair.
He was a miserable, selfish, bitter, fearful man right up to and including his dying day. An agnostic who had chosen to live in a theological limbo-land.
Another man one day wrote the following. “In the visible world the Milky Way is a tiny fragment. Within this fragment the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot tiny lumps of impure carbon and water crawl about for a few years, until they dissolve into the elements of which they are compounded.”
And so having written this he continued, “Therefore, what could be more logical than suicide?” And having asked the question, he did it.
H. L. Mencken, one of the most well known atheistic pessimists of all time, wrote, “Life is a business that doesn’t cover expenses. The only honest wish man can have is that of absolute annihilation.”
Such comments flow quite naturally from those who do not believe that “In the beginning God created…” or are not terribly impressed with the fact. Or who again and again cry out, “I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.”
It does make a difference what one believes, and how much and mightily one believes: the absolute void of absolute doubt, or the powerful presence and strength of absolute faith. Or, the in-between of tattle-tale gray.
“Even the irreligious cannot argue about the power of religion. Why? Because this whole business about the relationship between God and man is not just a social, cultural, political or ideological factor; it is personal. Through and through, it is you and your Creator with only two tags attached. The one reading Created and the other Creator.” (rewrite of ideas in the preface to the book Rediscovering Religion)
The writer Katherine Logan wrote, “If a vision is of God then it is a vision that comes in advance of a task well done.” (rewritten)
Let me put it yet another way, “Vision without a task is a dream; task without a vision is drudgery; vision with a task is the hope of the world.”
What is your vision?
If you are a preacher you see life as a sermon.
If you are a miser you see life as money.
If you are a loafer you see life as one life-long resting time.
If you are a soldier you see life as battle.
If you are a teacher you see life as a school where you both learn and teach.
Ah, life is a great thing for the thinker, but it’s a folly to the fool.
Life is just one long vacation to the man who loves his work,
But it’s a constant dodging of duty to the ever lasting shirk.
To the faithful, earnest person, life’s a story ever new.
Where there is no vision, the people perish…” says the book of Proverbs. (29:18)
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Nov 17…ARE YOU HAVING INSTALLATION PROBLEMS?
Nov 14…WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE BEST TWO WORDS IN YOUR VOCABULARY?
Nov 13…WHAT SHOULD YOU DO THAT ONE DAY YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT NOW YOU CAN DO?
Have a friend visit my ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS site. Have them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
GOD GIVES COMMANDMENTS AND WE SOMETIMES TREAT THEM LIKE SUGGESTIONS
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Remember the genius of the assembly line Henry Ford? He forgot to put a reverse gear in his first car, but by his second car around, he’d learned his lesson. Edison once spent $2 million dollars on an invention that never did work out, but as he said, “I got $2 million dollars worth of experience.”
For some people experience is only an exasperation and they learn nothing. Most unhappy people are those who have never learned how to take failure. And if you suggest to them it can be a learning experience they reply, “I don’t want to learn and change. I just want to continue to be what I’ve always been.”
His name was Walter Edwin Peck, a college professor with a brilliant mind. An authority on the poet, Shelley. He was charming and witty. He had the world in a jug and the cork in the other hand. (first line of a Cajun tune, author unknown) But in 1954, The New York Herald-Tribune reported his death on skid row during a snowstorm.
Somewhere along the pathway of living he had zanged when he should have zinged. Somewhere along the way this child of God, with a lifetime of promise in front of him, threw it all away for some moments of impulse.
He failed his wives – all three of them. He failed his children – all three of them. He failed his God – who had given him more than most.
And probably everyone of you is figuratively shaking your head and thinking, How tragic. And because we live on Main Street or Nightingale Avenue or 59th Street, skid row seems a million miles away; a tragic, wasteful, miserable million miles away.
But you see, skid row isn’t that far away for it is a state of mind, and heart and soul. Skid row isn’t just an area in New York City or its counterpart here in Miami-Dade County where I live. Skid row is what is inside of you and if you give it half a chance it will ruin your life.
Most likely Walter Edwin Peck came into this world like you and I, all starry-eyed and innocent. And then he made some decisions and they were wrong decisions. And then some more. And he didn’t learn and he didn’t change and one day he just ran out of time.
Have you ever stopped to think that sometimes when we believe we are being mentally independent, we are really being mentally incompetent? Indeed, we are all sometimes like the lady, who sitting on a jury, argued; “I don’t listen to the evidence. I prefer to make up my own mind.”
God gives a commandment and we treat it like a suggestion. Too often we write down God’s commandments in pencil… while keeping an eraser handy. Or if on a computer, with a finger poised above the delete button.
Do you know who and what a good Christian is? He is a man or woman who is good – for nothing. That’s right. His soul is not for sale to the highest bidder. He will do right if a thousand people are watching or if no one is watching. He requires no praise for his acts of righteousness.
By way of making a point: a young mountain lad was about to go on his first trip away from home on his way to college. As the train’s whistle signaled that it was time for all to board, the father put his arm around the young man’s shoulder and said, “It’s gonna be hard on your ma and me to keep you up there in that school this year. But we’ll do it somehow because we know you won’t fail to do your best by us.”
The young man boarded the train, found a seat by the window and waved goodbye to his parents. As the trip began, his eyes were misty and he thought, “I’d rather die than fail a dad and mom like mine.”
They believed in him. Their trust was like a living thing.
It’s what Christ does, you know. Puts His hand on your shoulder and says, “I love you. I died for you. I know you won’t fail to do your best by me.” And your response? Is it, I’d rather die than fail a Lord like mine.
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Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
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Remember the genius of the assembly line Henry Ford? He forgot to put a reverse gear in his first car, but by his second car around, he’d learned his lesson. Edison once spent $2 million dollars on an invention that never did work out, but as he said, “I got $2 million dollars worth of experience.”
For some people experience is only an exasperation and they learn nothing. Most unhappy people are those who have never learned how to take failure. And if you suggest to them it can be a learning experience they reply, “I don’t want to learn and change. I just want to continue to be what I’ve always been.”
His name was Walter Edwin Peck, a college professor with a brilliant mind. An authority on the poet, Shelley. He was charming and witty. He had the world in a jug and the cork in the other hand. (first line of a Cajun tune, author unknown) But in 1954, The New York Herald-Tribune reported his death on skid row during a snowstorm.
Somewhere along the pathway of living he had zanged when he should have zinged. Somewhere along the way this child of God, with a lifetime of promise in front of him, threw it all away for some moments of impulse.
He failed his wives – all three of them. He failed his children – all three of them. He failed his God – who had given him more than most.
And probably everyone of you is figuratively shaking your head and thinking, How tragic. And because we live on Main Street or Nightingale Avenue or 59th Street, skid row seems a million miles away; a tragic, wasteful, miserable million miles away.
But you see, skid row isn’t that far away for it is a state of mind, and heart and soul. Skid row isn’t just an area in New York City or its counterpart here in Miami-Dade County where I live. Skid row is what is inside of you and if you give it half a chance it will ruin your life.
Most likely Walter Edwin Peck came into this world like you and I, all starry-eyed and innocent. And then he made some decisions and they were wrong decisions. And then some more. And he didn’t learn and he didn’t change and one day he just ran out of time.
Have you ever stopped to think that sometimes when we believe we are being mentally independent, we are really being mentally incompetent? Indeed, we are all sometimes like the lady, who sitting on a jury, argued; “I don’t listen to the evidence. I prefer to make up my own mind.”
God gives a commandment and we treat it like a suggestion. Too often we write down God’s commandments in pencil… while keeping an eraser handy. Or if on a computer, with a finger poised above the delete button.
Do you know who and what a good Christian is? He is a man or woman who is good – for nothing. That’s right. His soul is not for sale to the highest bidder. He will do right if a thousand people are watching or if no one is watching. He requires no praise for his acts of righteousness.
By way of making a point: a young mountain lad was about to go on his first trip away from home on his way to college. As the train’s whistle signaled that it was time for all to board, the father put his arm around the young man’s shoulder and said, “It’s gonna be hard on your ma and me to keep you up there in that school this year. But we’ll do it somehow because we know you won’t fail to do your best by us.”
The young man boarded the train, found a seat by the window and waved goodbye to his parents. As the trip began, his eyes were misty and he thought, “I’d rather die than fail a dad and mom like mine.”
They believed in him. Their trust was like a living thing.
It’s what Christ does, you know. Puts His hand on your shoulder and says, “I love you. I died for you. I know you won’t fail to do your best by me.” And your response? Is it, I’d rather die than fail a Lord like mine.
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And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
FINDERS KEEPERS
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If you are not happy, it isn’t by choice.
You certainly didn’t wake up one morning and pray for an ongoing collection of the jitters, or fits of depression. A morbid state of mind isn’t a bargain at any price. So then, if unhappiness is not your choice and peace of mind is, how do you find this special gift of contentment?
I’m sure you would agree that there are certain basic universal laws that have never changed. You don’t plant drunkenness and then harvest sobriety. You don’t plant a selfish life and harvest a host of friends. You don’t plant a lazy faith and harvest a bumper crop of God’s power.
But what is it that makes such a large and unwieldy margin between what we believe and our deeds? It can be called sin, or weakness, or stubbornness, or convenient forgetfulness. It can be called by a host of names, but rather than define it, I thought it might be interesting to just look at it. Just put ourselves under a microscope of introspection.
Let’s begin with a few questions.
What makes you unhappy?
You have too many fears? What have you done to find courage?
You have too many enemies? What have you done to make friends?
You feel unloved and forgotten? What do you do to make yourself more lovely and worth remembering? Lovely people are never completely lonely, they have themselves and their memories. Unlovely people are never at peace, they too have themselves and their memories.
If we were to believe the world of commerce, complete happiness is money in the bank, food in the freezer and jokes for our emotions. However, “Happiness is not always having what you want, but wanting what you have.” That’s an old adage, but worth its weight in repeating.
No one ever gets all they want, when they want it. I don’t have everything I want, but neither do I know everything I need. So, the best thing I can do is pray, “Lord, when my wish is not wise, help me to not bow down before the altar of my own stupidity.”
You know, late on some afternoons when the day has been more than the man, I walk out and look up into the face of God.
That’s what I like to call this universe - this infinite extension of galaxies beyond my ability to comprehend. And for just a few moments I stand there, not necessarily praying, not necessarily thinking of the past, present or future. Just trying to be a spiritual sponge. Trying to be ready to soak up whatever God might give. Giving my soul a chance to catch up with my body.
Be still and know that I am God – that is the way the Bible puts it.
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If you are not happy, it isn’t by choice.
You certainly didn’t wake up one morning and pray for an ongoing collection of the jitters, or fits of depression. A morbid state of mind isn’t a bargain at any price. So then, if unhappiness is not your choice and peace of mind is, how do you find this special gift of contentment?
I’m sure you would agree that there are certain basic universal laws that have never changed. You don’t plant drunkenness and then harvest sobriety. You don’t plant a selfish life and harvest a host of friends. You don’t plant a lazy faith and harvest a bumper crop of God’s power.
But what is it that makes such a large and unwieldy margin between what we believe and our deeds? It can be called sin, or weakness, or stubbornness, or convenient forgetfulness. It can be called by a host of names, but rather than define it, I thought it might be interesting to just look at it. Just put ourselves under a microscope of introspection.
Let’s begin with a few questions.
What makes you unhappy?
You have too many fears? What have you done to find courage?
You have too many enemies? What have you done to make friends?
You feel unloved and forgotten? What do you do to make yourself more lovely and worth remembering? Lovely people are never completely lonely, they have themselves and their memories. Unlovely people are never at peace, they too have themselves and their memories.
If we were to believe the world of commerce, complete happiness is money in the bank, food in the freezer and jokes for our emotions. However, “Happiness is not always having what you want, but wanting what you have.” That’s an old adage, but worth its weight in repeating.
No one ever gets all they want, when they want it. I don’t have everything I want, but neither do I know everything I need. So, the best thing I can do is pray, “Lord, when my wish is not wise, help me to not bow down before the altar of my own stupidity.”
You know, late on some afternoons when the day has been more than the man, I walk out and look up into the face of God.
That’s what I like to call this universe - this infinite extension of galaxies beyond my ability to comprehend. And for just a few moments I stand there, not necessarily praying, not necessarily thinking of the past, present or future. Just trying to be a spiritual sponge. Trying to be ready to soak up whatever God might give. Giving my soul a chance to catch up with my body.
Be still and know that I am God – that is the way the Bible puts it.
Posted on ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS SITE Thursday November 12th NOTHING TO GIVE? REALLY?
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And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
GENESIS...EXODUS
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The 23rd day of September in the year 1928 was my own personal Genesis, “In the beginning…” I did not know then, nor do I know now, the day of my Exodus.
I remember nothing of that time in the middle of the night that started it all, that first day of the spring of my earthly existence, but I have to have been filled with awe and wonder. How could it be otherwise? All around me were other lives I would be joining; my mother, my father, strangers and above and around me, he who put it all in motion, God.
Early on I was introduced to our Savior, and heavenly forgiveness and the challenge of trying to live a better life to give family and friends more golden memories than heartaches.
One thing is certain. It is a two-sided coin we deal with between our Genesis and Exodus. Whether we shall be governed by our negative doubts, or our positive faith.
Whether we shall curse God for all we do not know or understand, or praise Him for what we do know and understand. Whether we go for spiritual excellence and give it our all, or settle for spiritual bankruptcy.
How near is your God? As close as you want Him to be.
Did you ever notice than an entire book in the Bible is called THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. Not the dreams of the Apostles. Not the sluggish aspirations of the Apostles. But the actions of the Apostles.
How near is your God? As close as you want Him to be. As close as your actions call Him out to be.
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The 23rd day of September in the year 1928 was my own personal Genesis, “In the beginning…” I did not know then, nor do I know now, the day of my Exodus.
I remember nothing of that time in the middle of the night that started it all, that first day of the spring of my earthly existence, but I have to have been filled with awe and wonder. How could it be otherwise? All around me were other lives I would be joining; my mother, my father, strangers and above and around me, he who put it all in motion, God.
Early on I was introduced to our Savior, and heavenly forgiveness and the challenge of trying to live a better life to give family and friends more golden memories than heartaches.
One thing is certain. It is a two-sided coin we deal with between our Genesis and Exodus. Whether we shall be governed by our negative doubts, or our positive faith.
Whether we shall curse God for all we do not know or understand, or praise Him for what we do know and understand. Whether we go for spiritual excellence and give it our all, or settle for spiritual bankruptcy.
How near is your God? As close as you want Him to be.
Did you ever notice than an entire book in the Bible is called THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. Not the dreams of the Apostles. Not the sluggish aspirations of the Apostles. But the actions of the Apostles.
How near is your God? As close as you want Him to be. As close as your actions call Him out to be.
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
A LEFT OVER GOD
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Isaiah 44:13-15
The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses. He shapes it in the form of man, of man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine. He cuts down cedars, or perhaps takes a cypress or oak. He lets it grow among the trees of the forest, or plants a pine, and the rain makes it grow. It is a man’s fuel for burning; some of it he takes and warms himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread, but he also fashions a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
If we were to meet, and down the road you forget me, we will have lost the possibility of a new friendships, but it will not be life threatening. If you meet Jesus and down the road forget Him, you will have lost a friendship and a relationship that is life threatening.
The story above that is found in the book of Isaiah is about a tree cutting, but what it really is, is a story about priorities.
First he cuts down the tree because he is cold and wants a fire to warm himself. Then he is hungry and uses more wood to keep the fire brightly burning and cook his food.
Finally, when all the important things have been taken care of he takes the remainder of the wood and begins to shape the image of his God. Then later, as he bows down before the image of his God he has just made from left over wood, he prays “Deliver me from all harm; for thou art my God.” A left over faith for a left over God made from left over wood.
One day, a conversation took place between a cow and a pig. Were you an unusual but very talented linguist, you might well have been able to interpret. At any rate, they were discussing the different kind of treatment each received from the farmer.
The pig was complaining, “Cow, you get the best of whatever food is available. I get only the scraps that are left. The farmer has given you a name, Betsy. When he wants me to come he only shouts out ‘souey, souey’ Why does it happen this way?”
The cow paused a moment and then answered, “Well, I think it is because I give the farmer what he wants while I am alive. As for you, Mr. Pig, he has to wait until you are dead to get anything out of you.”
It is called reacting or responding, and there is a difference. All the difference in the world. Some respond by giving God the first fruits of all their increase. Others simply react, to God and therefore give Him only their leftovers.
The following was posted on my One A Day Your Spiritual Vitamins Site today … ASPIRE TO PRESPIRE FOR A CAUSE WORTH THE PRESPIRATION
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Isaiah 44:13-15
The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses. He shapes it in the form of man, of man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine. He cuts down cedars, or perhaps takes a cypress or oak. He lets it grow among the trees of the forest, or plants a pine, and the rain makes it grow. It is a man’s fuel for burning; some of it he takes and warms himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread, but he also fashions a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
If we were to meet, and down the road you forget me, we will have lost the possibility of a new friendships, but it will not be life threatening. If you meet Jesus and down the road forget Him, you will have lost a friendship and a relationship that is life threatening.
The story above that is found in the book of Isaiah is about a tree cutting, but what it really is, is a story about priorities.
First he cuts down the tree because he is cold and wants a fire to warm himself. Then he is hungry and uses more wood to keep the fire brightly burning and cook his food.
Finally, when all the important things have been taken care of he takes the remainder of the wood and begins to shape the image of his God. Then later, as he bows down before the image of his God he has just made from left over wood, he prays “Deliver me from all harm; for thou art my God.” A left over faith for a left over God made from left over wood.
One day, a conversation took place between a cow and a pig. Were you an unusual but very talented linguist, you might well have been able to interpret. At any rate, they were discussing the different kind of treatment each received from the farmer.
The pig was complaining, “Cow, you get the best of whatever food is available. I get only the scraps that are left. The farmer has given you a name, Betsy. When he wants me to come he only shouts out ‘souey, souey’ Why does it happen this way?”
The cow paused a moment and then answered, “Well, I think it is because I give the farmer what he wants while I am alive. As for you, Mr. Pig, he has to wait until you are dead to get anything out of you.”
It is called reacting or responding, and there is a difference. All the difference in the world. Some respond by giving God the first fruits of all their increase. Others simply react, to God and therefore give Him only their leftovers.
The following was posted on my One A Day Your Spiritual Vitamins Site today … ASPIRE TO PRESPIRE FOR A CAUSE WORTH THE PRESPIRATION
Have a friend visit my ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS site. Have them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
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And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
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And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
REMEMBER PHILIP, THOU MUST DIE. REMEMBER PHILIP, THOU MUST LIVE
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There is a story told about Philip of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great, who assigned to a slave a most unusual task. Each morning the slave was required to come to Philip’s room and coldly interrupt whatever the king was doing or thinking, “Remember, Philip, thou must die.”
And perhaps that is part of the task set before us –to remind ourselves of our immortality but also our mortality. For while it is a blow to the ego, it is also a wisdom to the soul. What do we live for? What are we willing to live without?
To look at our engraved stationery, or our name on the mailbox, or office door, or on the little box of tithing envelopes and remind ourselves that this life is short. There is, indeed, something about confronting the here-now with the hereafter that makes one pause to think.
Certain questions then rise to the fore, such as: are we a Christian society with too many pagan habits, or a pagan society some-times practicing Christian ethics? Do we sometimes confuse kindness with Christianity?
And because we no longer engage in duels, or keep slaves, or work children 15 hours a day, does that make us a Christian nation?
It is fine to be committed to being a decent human being. No one can argue against that. It is excellent to be committed to family and great to be committed to a savings account. Prudent financial practice is a sign of maturity.
It is a good thing to be committed to some relaxation and recreation. The weary are no more holy than the rested.
But, out in the night there is a cross, and the Man hanging there cannot really be taken down till every man, every woman and every child comes to take Him down.
For whom and what and where and when do we live. For yes Philip, or Mary, or Sam, or Jane you must die but also you must live. For whom and what and where and when!
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
The following was posted on my One A Day Your Spiritual Vitamins Site today… THINK ABOUT CHANGE FOR A CHANGE?
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There is a story told about Philip of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great, who assigned to a slave a most unusual task. Each morning the slave was required to come to Philip’s room and coldly interrupt whatever the king was doing or thinking, “Remember, Philip, thou must die.”
And perhaps that is part of the task set before us –to remind ourselves of our immortality but also our mortality. For while it is a blow to the ego, it is also a wisdom to the soul. What do we live for? What are we willing to live without?
To look at our engraved stationery, or our name on the mailbox, or office door, or on the little box of tithing envelopes and remind ourselves that this life is short. There is, indeed, something about confronting the here-now with the hereafter that makes one pause to think.
Certain questions then rise to the fore, such as: are we a Christian society with too many pagan habits, or a pagan society some-times practicing Christian ethics? Do we sometimes confuse kindness with Christianity?
And because we no longer engage in duels, or keep slaves, or work children 15 hours a day, does that make us a Christian nation?
It is fine to be committed to being a decent human being. No one can argue against that. It is excellent to be committed to family and great to be committed to a savings account. Prudent financial practice is a sign of maturity.
It is a good thing to be committed to some relaxation and recreation. The weary are no more holy than the rested.
But, out in the night there is a cross, and the Man hanging there cannot really be taken down till every man, every woman and every child comes to take Him down.
For whom and what and where and when do we live. For yes Philip, or Mary, or Sam, or Jane you must die but also you must live. For whom and what and where and when!
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
The following was posted on my One A Day Your Spiritual Vitamins Site today… THINK ABOUT CHANGE FOR A CHANGE?
Have a friend visit my ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS site. Have them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
ARE YOU AN ANTIQUE WHO NEEDS TO BE RESTORED?
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Have you ever stopped to think that when we accept God’s love we become restored antiques? Yes, in a way, I believe that is exactly what we become.
The book of Ephesians describes this antique restoration so very well, “…once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light.” (Ephesians 5:8)
It’s all there, everyday in every way…the love of God. It’s there in the excited cry of a child at close of day. It’s there in the kneeling response of a man or woman in prayer. It’s there every time we reach up and God reaches down.
What is it the marines are always saying, “We’re looking for a few good men.” Well, God is certainly looking for good men and women but also realizing that even good men and women can sometimes be ungodly and not so good, not always worthy of forgiveness but forgiving them anyway.
And do you want to know something? “There is nothing you can do to make God love you more. There is nothing you can do to make Him love you less.” (Anonymous)
The following was posted on my One A Day Your Spiritual Vitamins Site today… JUST HOP RIGHT IN
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Have you ever stopped to think that when we accept God’s love we become restored antiques? Yes, in a way, I believe that is exactly what we become.
The book of Ephesians describes this antique restoration so very well, “…once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light.” (Ephesians 5:8)
It’s all there, everyday in every way…the love of God. It’s there in the excited cry of a child at close of day. It’s there in the kneeling response of a man or woman in prayer. It’s there every time we reach up and God reaches down.
What is it the marines are always saying, “We’re looking for a few good men.” Well, God is certainly looking for good men and women but also realizing that even good men and women can sometimes be ungodly and not so good, not always worthy of forgiveness but forgiving them anyway.
And do you want to know something? “There is nothing you can do to make God love you more. There is nothing you can do to make Him love you less.” (Anonymous)
The following was posted on my One A Day Your Spiritual Vitamins Site today… JUST HOP RIGHT IN
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
SUPPOSE CHRIST HAD BEEN COVETOUS
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Suppose Christ had been covetous? Had coveted safety above sacrifice. Been more interested in riches than redemption. Suppose on the top of the mountain when tempted by the devil he had turned the stones into bread, coveting men’s appreciation more than their respect.
Covetousness and Christianity are as different as night and day. Covetousness says “Me”. Christianity says “Thee.” Covetousness says “What you have is mine.” Christianity says “What I have is yours.” The cornerstone of Covetousness is “Selfishness.” The cornerstone of Christianity is “Sacrifice.” Christianity may be too big for the little people who try to follow it, but covetousness is definitely too small for one to want to follow.
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Suppose Christ had been covetous? Had coveted safety above sacrifice. Been more interested in riches than redemption. Suppose on the top of the mountain when tempted by the devil he had turned the stones into bread, coveting men’s appreciation more than their respect.
Covetousness and Christianity are as different as night and day. Covetousness says “Me”. Christianity says “Thee.” Covetousness says “What you have is mine.” Christianity says “What I have is yours.” The cornerstone of Covetousness is “Selfishness.” The cornerstone of Christianity is “Sacrifice.” Christianity may be too big for the little people who try to follow it, but covetousness is definitely too small for one to want to follow.
Have a friend visit my ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS site. Have them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
And, yes, if this site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
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