“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 b y 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 towards
the end, 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 will go into his study and 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 “it looks amazingly like “growth”.
Blessings,
Gramps
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