Toothpaste

 

There is a fine line between frugal and stingy.  And I may have crossed that line.  My toothpaste was running low, so I bought a new tube.  But trying to save money, I kept squeezing the old toothpaste tube past when it was reasonably empty.  I kept getting just one more squeeze out of it.  This has continued now for 10 days and counting!  It seems that there is just a little left as I squeeze and squeeze.  Hey, the good Lord’s grace just seems to go on and on and on as well!  God’s grace never seems to end!  I sang, “He Giveth More Grace” last Sunday evening at Calvary.  James 4:6&7, “But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” 

Life & Death

 

Friday morning, fall was in the air.  Summer’s hot breath was tempered with a cool morning breeze.  Fall was in the air at the Daily Hill Cemetery as well, so I changed the summer silk flowers for an orange and rust brown bouquet.  I miss Kathy.  But then I came back home where I was working on a cradle for my new little nephew.  I found some nice wood camouflaged as pallets.  A few passes in my planer will turn pallet wood into recycled cradle boards.  And life goes on.  One life is completed and another is just beginning.  Hey, there is 100% chance of you dying someday.  The question is, are you ready to meet your Maker?  Psalm 90:12, “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”

Hidden

 

Thursday, I spoke in chapel at Fairview Christian Academy in Athens, TN.  I had to vacuum out my work truck to keep my dress pants spiffy.  And as I vacuumed under the seat, I came up with a washer from a sink drain assembly.  The washer had been hiding under the truck seat since the former owner had the truck several years ago.  Unknown to me, this washer was there all the time.  Hey, like my washer, do you have any hidden problems in your life?  These “hidden problems” are actually called sins.  You may think that they are a secret known only to you, but you are sadly mistaken.  You see, God knows.  Hebrews 4:13, “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”  How does it feel to think that your deepest, darkest secret is open before the Almighty God?!  So, why not take a moment to confess your sins to God?  After all, He already knows all about them.