Why Are We So Much Smarter When We are Little Squeezers?

 

Friday, March 15, 2013

 

“Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.  Each one must do just as he has purposed in is heart.” (I Corinthians 9:6-7a)

 Hey ang, When we are small and growing up we only stuck our finger in the fire once and learned that was not such a good idea and never did it again .We learned that to sass mom or dad was not a good idea.  We learned to wise crack with the bully down the street earned a fat lip and black eye and was not a good idea.  Each of us has our stories of woe, when we learned one of those irrevocable laws of nature and do our very best not to repeat them.

 But, as we grow older, do we not become slower learners?  I came across a neat little story where the daughter of a business executive asked her daddy, who was preparing to go out on the town, “Why do you wear that black suit and bow tie when you know you will be deathly sick and have a splitting headache tomorrow?”

 A short trip through skid row with your children is not a bad idea; but only if you are not making the same mistakes which earned a position in the gutter.  It is always amazing to me that there is no question smoking and boozing and drugs are not good for your body and you will pay the piper for using them down the road.  But it does not matter how much the price of these life–destroying things cost, people will sacrifice the finer things of life to purchase them.

 I wonder, if someone opened a “Reap What You Sow School of Higher Learning,” would anyone come? I confess that there are many times when I stuck my fingers in the fire, even though I knew it was going to be painful.  But did you know the more you stick your finger in the fire, the less the pain?

 Paul gave fair warning to all when he wrote, “God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this he will also reap.  For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” (Galatians 6:6-7).  Notice, also he adds a warning to the warning – ‘it ain’t going to happen in the twinkling of your eye.’  He says, “Hey gang “don’t lose heart in planting the good seeds, “for in due time we will reap….when we do not grow weary”. (v.9) 

 Paul closes this bit of truth with a challenge to those who love the Lord: “So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.” (V.10).

 Sooooo, it is time to close this epistle and get about some plowing, disking, planting, fertilizing and cultivating, but keep in mind God is the harvester.  

 Blessings, 

Gramps

 

Have you Answered This Question in Your Heart and Mind?

 

Friday, March 11, 2016

 “Behold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the people around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah.  It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples” (Zecharia 12:2-3a).

 Hey Gang: Perhaps it is time for a quick review! Zechariah makes it pretty clear in the final chapter of the Age of the Gentiles: There will be great controversy across the earth as to who really owns the land of Israel.  The sons of Ishmael would have the world believe that the Hebrew people have never had the rights to the land of “milk and honey” and have done all in their power to erase any memory of those days of the patriarchs and kings of Israel. (They must not read printed history books).

 They claim there has never been a temple on the temple mount.  An interesting article recently appeared in a newsletter from a national ministry pertaining to the Barbary Coast pirates of Thomas Jefferson’s time who were harassing all shipping that came near to their countries- kind of the like the Somalia pirates of today.

 To find out why they were doing this a contingent of world leaders went to the Barbary Coast and met with one of the guru’s and asks the question, “Why are you doing this when we have not harmed you in any way”.  The official remarked, “Because we are told in our holy book, as sons of Islam, we are to harass and kill all infidels who do not believe as we do.” 

 In the Bible, God spoke to Abraham, father of the Jews and directs him to take up his bed and leave the country of his birth and go to the land of Canaan. God says, "I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing.  And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse, And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed" (Genesis 12:2-3).

 Later in Genesis God promises Abraham, “To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates"  (Genesis 15:18).  Notice “I have given this land”.   You must decide in your own mind and heart if God changes His mind.

 Two chapters later, God tells Abraham, “I will establish my covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for in everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you" (Genesis 17:7).

 The Bible also says Israel must be mindful of God's covenant with Abraham, "O seed of Israel His servant, Sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!  He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth.  Remember His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand generations, The covenant which He made with Abraham,  And His oath to Isaac.  He also confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Isael as an everlasting covenant, Saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan, As the portion of your inheritance."   (I  Chronicles 16:13-18).

  Soooo, my friends, what say ye?  Several years back, William Koenig wrote a book which he titled Eye to Eye. He subtitled the book ‘Facing he Consequences of Dividing Israel’.  In the book he chronicles 57 catastrophic events that occurred in our land that occurred as talks were proceeding on the dividing of the land.  The most notable- Katrina devastated our country during that time when the world mandate that Gaza would be ethnically cleansed of all Jews and given to the Palestinians. 

 I remind you of this event at this time, because we are half way through the Jubilee Year.  Our President indicated last fall that he would support the France resolution that Judah and Samaria and East Jerusalem must be evacuated by all Jews and turned over to the Palestinians in eighteen months. In March 2016 VP Biden visited Israel to push for this to happen for the legacy of Obama.   Will God remain silent if the world dictates the covenant land, half of the Eternal City is given to Israel’s enemies?  I think not yet!

Psalm 122:6 tells us to “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem”.  Yeshua Messiah is their (and OUR ) only Peace. 

 Blessings, Gramps

Have you Answered This Question in Your Heart and Mind?

 

Friday, March 11, 2016

 “Behold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the people around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah.  It willcome about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples”(Zechariah 12:2-3a).

 Hey Gang: Perhaps it is time for a quick review! Zechariah makes it pretty clear in the final chapter of the Age of the Gentiles: There will be great controversy across the earth as to who really owns the land of Israel.  The sons of Ishmael would have the world believe that the Hebrew people have never had the rights to the land of “milk and honey” and have done all in their power to erase any memory of those days of the patriarchs and kings of Israel. (They must not read printed history books).

 They claim there has never been a temple on the temple mount.  An interesting article recently appeared in a newsletter from a national ministry pertaining to the Barbary Coast pirates of Thomas Jefferson’s time who were harassing all shipping that came near to their countries- kind of the like the Somalia pirates of today.

 o find out why they were doing this a contingent of world leaders went to the Barbary Coast and met with one of the guru’s and asks the question, “Why are you doing this when we have not harmed you in any way”.  The official remarked, “Because we are told in our holy book, as sons of Islam, we are to harass and kill all infidels who do not believe as we do.” 

 In the Bible, God spoke to Abraham, father of the Jews ,and directs him to take up his bed and leave the country of his birth and go to the land of Canaan. God says, "I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing.  And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse, And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed" (Genesis 12:2-3).

 Later in Genesis God promises Abraham, “To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates"  (Genisus 15:18).  Notice “I have given this land”.   You must decide in your own mind and heart if God changes His mind.

 Two chapters later, God tells Abraham, “I will establish my covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for in everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you" (Genisus 17:7).

 The Bible also says Israel must be mindful of God's covenant with Abraham, "O seed of Israel His servant, Sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!  He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth.  Remember His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand generations, The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac.  He also confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant, saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan, As the portion of your inheritance."   (I  Chronicles 16:13-18).

 Soooo, my friends, what say ye?  Several years back, William Koenig wrote a book which he titled Eye to Eye. He subtitled the book ‘Facing he Consequences of Dividing Israel’.  In the book he chronicles 57 catastrophic events that occurred in our land that occurred as talks were proceeding on the dividing of the land.  The most notable- Katrina devastated our country during that time when the world mandate that Gaza would be ethnically cleansed of all Jews and given to the Palestinians. 

 I remind you of this event at this time, because we are half way through the Jubilee Year.  Our President indicated last fall that he would support the France resolution that Judah and Samaria and East Jerusalem must be evacuated by all Jews and turned over to the Palestinians in eighteen months. In March 2016 VP Biden visited Israel to push for this to happen for the legacy of Obama.   Will God remain silent if the world dictates the covenant land, half of the Eternal City is given to Israel’s enemies?  I think not yet!

 Psalm 122:6 tells us to “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem”.  Yeshua Messiah is their only Peace. 

Blessings, Gramps