"Those who sow
in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.
He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed shall indeed
come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him" (Psalm 126:5-6).
Hey Gang: Anyone out
there know what the ‘Peter Principle’ is?
For those who do not, simply stated it is ‘if it can go wrong it will’. Did you ever notice that in most cases when
you drop something on the floor it has eyes and hunts something to crawl under?
One of the anxiety driven principles that plagues you as you
grow into the so called ‘Golden Years’ (Golden for the medical profession) is
everything, including your body begins to wear out. Completing a chore usually consist of seventy
percent of the time fixing the equipment and twenty-five percent getting to the
production phase.
I recently went through another phase with my D-14 Allis
Chalmers tractor. If you have been a
Gramps morning reader, you have read my stories of woe with the beastly machine. This time it was especially irritating
because nothing I did seemed to fix the problem. I cleaned the lines, I had the carburetor
rebuilt, we took the gas tank off and cleaned it and it would run for ten
minutes and quit.
One day in utter frustration I cried out, Lord I do not need
this continue aggravation and the thought came into my head that my problem was
in the sediment bulb of the beast. So I
took off the sediment bulb and, low and behold, the gas feed was feeding slowly
on one side and completely blocked on the other. Ten
minutes with the air compression removed the thorn in my side that had plagued
me for more than a year and the tractor has run as good as 64 year old tractor
can run.
Now I want to share a piece of advice that can make your
lives much more satisfying, especially when dealing with the alligators snapping at
your heels. I struggled with the D-14
for a year before I cried out to God "I do not need this
aggravation". I had cried out to God on other occasions when
the rubber-was-hitting-the road and He was always faithful and true in
responding to those cries but I am a very slow learner and had to exhaust my
human limitations before seeking the help of the One who is all wisdom.
The Word is filled
with power verses that give us encouragement during those times when it seems
the roof is falling. I suspect the world
situations are only going to worsen as we get closer to the end of the Age of
the Gentiles, so I strongly recommend you fill your mental computer hard drives
with power verses that God can pull out of you when the rafters begin to creek.
Soooo, when the clouds darken I like to go back to David,
for he knew what adversity was. He wrote, "The
Lord is my strength and my shield: My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped;
Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him" (Psalm
28:7). And to John, who probably wrote
these words on the Island of Patmos where he was in bondage, "These things I have spoken to you, so
that in Me you may have peace, In the world you have tribulation, but take
courage; I have overcome the world" (John 16:33).
Blessings,
Gramps
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