Conscience

 

This morning, I woke up late.  I had set my alarm, but I had failed to turn the volume back up on my cellphone settings from church Sunday.  My alarm had gone off right on time, but the sound was muted.  Reminded me of a conscience problem.  Psalm 66:18, “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.”  if I ignore the blessed Holy Spirit over and over, my God-given warning system: my conscience, becomes disabled and I fail to hear God’s speaking.  Like my silenced cellphone, God’s still, small voice has been silenced by my own sin.  Hey, my post may be a wake-up call from the dear Lord to you!  Are you as close to the Lord as you want to be?  Actually, you ARE as close to the Lord as you want to be.  Think about it.

A Mother's Love

 

A mother’s love is just about the most perfect love that there is.  She will do, and give, and make excuses, for her children to a fault.  She will put up with things that no human being should put up with.  And she will think nothing of it.  My family was visiting my mother in Maryland years ago.  I ran out to the car, jumped in, and took off.  When I returned, my wife met me at the front door with a look of panic.  She said, “When you left, you drove over your mother’s cat.  Flo Flo’s dead.”  I was shocked and embarrassed.  I went inside, apologizing to my mother.  But she said (matter-of-factly), “Oh, it’s not your fault.  Flo Flo shouldn’t have been sitting in front of the tire.”  I killed my mother’s cat, and she was making excuses for me!  Solomon got it right in Proverbs 4:3, “For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.”  Solomon knew that King David, his father, loved him.  But Solomon knew that Bathsheba, his mother, loved him even more.  Hey, do you know that there is a love that surpasses the love of your mother!  God loves you even more than your mother loves you!  Fiercely, tenderly, and unwaveringly.  Hey, do you love God right back?  Don’t forget Jesus Christ during the upcoming Christmas season.  He hasn’t forgotten you.

Clog

 

A while back at church, I noticed that the rainwater was running over the downspout instead of into the downspout.  So 2 weeks ago, I got out the 8’ step ladder, used the back fire escape landing, and climbed up onto the flat roof of our church fellowship hall to investigate.  And when I examined the downspout, I found 2 tennis balls clogging the downspout.  How did 2 tennis balls get into the second story downspout, you might ask?  You’ll have to ask the little urchin who threw them up there.  And I’m sure someone else was with him laughing at his friend’s mischief even daring him to throw the second one up there. Proverbs 1:10, “My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.”   And when it rained, both tennis balls floated over the roof with the rainwater and into the downspout where they stopped up the flow causing damaging water infiltration to the lower story roof below.  Fun for a kid resulted in a damaged roof.  Observe and consider.