Old Cotton Tee Shirt

 

My wife said that my tee shirt is getting too threadbare and must go.  But from my standpoint, it’s just getting soft and comfortably worn in.  And she has jeans with holes in them that she bought that way.  And she has a blouse that is made with the seams on the outside with a big hole in the collar made that way … just like my old tee shirt.  And furthermore, my tee shirt is an antique: it is vintage Blood Assurance.  The sad part is that I am taking blood thinners and disqualified from donating blood, so I won’t be able to get any more Blood Assurance tee shirts.  I only have two left (because I used all of the other ones to make a rag rug).  And besides, the hole in the collar is up under my beard where no one can see it (or know it) … except for me and my wife (who folds my worn-out tee shirt from the dryer).  Seriously, she has only my best interest at heart.  My wife wants me to stay well-dressed.  And Paul reminds me in Ephesians 5:25, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.”  And Jesus has set the bar pretty high.  So, I think that I’ll take Paul’s advice and listen to my wife.  Anyone need a cotton rag?

Purring Kitten

 

When I was growing up, we always had a dog.  Only once did we have a cat.  I don’t know where we got that little kitten, but it was named tattoo.  I don’t think the name had anything to do with ink-on-skin, I think one of my little brothers just couldn’t say the real name that he was trying to say.  I like kittens, but I don’t like cats (no hate mail, please).  But Tattoo was cute.  I would pick it up and settle it into my lap.  Then I would stroke it on the head and it would relax.  And as I would scratch it behind the ears, Tattoo would begin to purr.  I could scratch it behind the ears all day, and it would not move.  It would purr and purr with delight.  Hey, there are people in church who purr with delight too.  II Timothy 4:3, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.”  People church shop looking for preachers who tell them what they want to hear.  But I am glad that our church has a preacher who tells us what we need to hear, not what we want to hear.  Truth is interesting.  First it hurts, then it convicts, and finally it cleans.  Hey, do you have a preacher that only strokes you, or do you have a preacher who preaches the Word of God?  Message me and I can help you find a good preacher.

Evicted

 

If, for some reason, you were to be evicted from your nice home, that would be terrible.  But if you were evicted from an old, dilapidated tent that you were using just to keep the rain off of you, that would be nothing.  You would easily take the few things that you had and move to a better place.  Paul complained in II Corinthians 5:4, “For we that are in this tabernacle (tent) do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.”  The apostle Paul was different.  He woke up in the morning disappointed that he was alive another day!  He wanted to leave his old body (temporary tent) and get his new body from the Lord and move into heaven!  Hey, as we grow older, with all of our aches, pains, and diseases, our heavenly home becomes sweeter and sweeter.  And someday, we will be reunited with our heavenly Father to dwell with Him in glory!  What a day that will be!