Once again it is getting late, and I have not posted. Why do so many things get put off until the last possible moment? Don't tell me, I think I know.
Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes
"You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine." ~ Tertullian (160 - 225)
Ecclesiastes 7:2 It is better to proceed into a funeral home as a mourner, as this will be the end of all men, than traveling to the local tavern to drink — and the living take it to heart. ~ Solomon (RSVP to God)
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first." ~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
A Thought to Share
Live a disciplined life with as much as the Lord has given you to accomplish it. I have vacillated from being undisciplined to disciplined and back again. I can say from experience living self-disciplined lives is far better, "for the Lord disciplines those He loves." And "no discipline for the moment seems pleasant."
Tertullian understood this, but using his wisdom to judge others is not how Christians are called to live their lives. Solomon knew the difference, but tried every way that there was to live. In the end, he soured on life itself, because he did not include God in many of his years. "Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth."
He still retained the ability to give sound advice to the end, without maintaining the ability to follow through in his own life. His wives turned his heart from following God. He looked at his approaching day of death as a thing to be desired more than his birthday. Being around that many women might cause any man to feel the same.
Look forward to tomorrow without trepidation. Take hold of it by both handles. Place the handle of anxiety in the hand of God and live by faith. Look for opportunities to praise Him. Commit your day to Him and the way you live it, and He will direct and order it for you. Our future is, after all, already in His hands.
Humor
NEWS FLASH! - North Carolina's worst air disaster occurred when a small two-seat Cessna 150 plane, piloted by two University of North Carolina students, crashed into a cemetery earlier today. Search and Rescue workers have recovered 300 bodies so far and expect the number to climb as digging continues into the evening.
The pilot and copilot survived and are helping in the recovery efforts.
A man in South Carolina had a flat tire, pulled off on the side of the road, and proceeded to put a bouquet of flowers in front of the car and one behind it. Then he got back in the car to wait. A passerby studied the scene as he drove by and was so curious he turned around and went back. He asked the fellow what the problem was.
The man replied, "I have a flat tayre."
The passerby asked, "But what's with the flowers?"
The man responded, "When you break down they tell you to put flares in the front and flares in the back. I never did understand it neither."
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