“Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to
present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is
your spiritual service of worship” (Rom. 12:1).
Hainley hillbilly rendition “Fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out.”
I like Chuck Swindoll’s practical
writings and teachings and preaching. He
says, “You’re over the hill when the stewardess offers you coffee, tea, or Milk
of Magnesia; or you sink your teeth into a juicy steak, and they stay there; or
there is more hair stuck in the drain than on your head” And to that I would add “when we are no longer
willing to change”.
Alfred Nobel was Swedish chemist who
made his fortune by inventing dynamite and other explosives used for
weapons. When his brother died, a
newspaper accidentally printed Alfred’s obituary instead. It described him as a man who’d become rich
by enabling people to kill each other in unprecedented numbers.
Deeply shaken, he resolved to use
his fortune to award accomplishments that benefited humanity – hence The Nobel
Prize. Nobel had the rare opportunity
reevaluate his life, after a life-time of accomplishments, and still live long
enough to do something about it.
Jerry Lewis joked that the best
wedding present was a film of the entire marriage ceremony. He said when things got really bad at home he
would go into his study, run the film backwards and at the end walk out a free
man.
But be advised, ‘unwillingness to
change is not restricted to the over the hill gang.’ We have all run into people who are locked
into the way they are and nothing short of Nobel’s dynamite would break them
out of their bondages.
Soooo, you will probably never read your obituary in
the newspaper, or run the film of your marriage backwards, but you can make a choice to change, which, when we look back, looks amazingly
like ‘growth’.
Blessings,
Gramps
Blessings,
Gramps
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