I wish it were just a little cooler outside today. If it were, I would be goose hunting and drinking my Door County Maple Coffee in a field or in a marsh. Hunting in the heat just seems to lack the pizazz that hunting in the cold offers.
I for one am waging war on how complicated life is now days. It seems to me that life in these times has become like a complicated Broadway play that some egg head wrote with fifty shades of stories wrapped into it and we are supposed to follow along with the paper program that you can't see in the dark, with print that is too small to read. Then at the end of the play we are supposed to applaud and claim how we thought it was the greatest written score we have ever watched and listened to. But no one in the exiting audience says what they really think, like what was that stupid play really all about? Or are you kidding me? We fear saying the wrong thing, or having it explained in such a way that only the insane can understand anyway.
Here is a simple example. Many years ago I used to coach Little League Baseball. Back then we used to play to win. We taught how to be a good sport about losing, by always shaking hands with the team that may have just beat you on the baseball field. Or encouraging the team we just beat by shaking hands with them. We had three outs , four balls, three strikes and a set amount of innings. I a instructed the parents to always cheer their team on without negatively tearing down the other team. For instance if their team were batting, they should encourage their players to get a hit, keep their eye on the ball etc. Not encourage the kid by saying "hit it hard to the chubby kid in right field, he can't run fast." But now I hear that some leagues have everyone bat in an inning, and they don't keep score. This is designed to have no one feel bad. I wonder what happens on school tests? Does everyone get an A just for signing the paper? I wouldn't know how to behave at a game anymore. I would need to take a class on Little League etiquette. What would be easier it to not go to the game, or just read a book during the game so as not to get a headache from trying to figure out how a game that is over a century old has changed to the point of what we are teaching today. I wouldn't want to applaud at the wrong time. I need to scold our local Major league team today. Obviously they were going to win the game last night, but they kept hitting the ball anyway. Shame on them.
Life has become one drama after the next without and rhyme or reason some time. "Do this for a limited time, but only if the clouds form a baby lamb today? Don't do this unless it is the 31st day of February. Argh!!!
I am going to take one Godly principle from Scripture for the rest of the month and publish it to help take the complications out of life. Maybe we together, can take some of the drama in our lives away.
Number one. You reap what you sow. If you sow chaos you will have a chaotic life. If you avoid telling the truth, your life lies will ensnare you and you will be lied about. This is called the law of the Harvest.
Galatians 6:7-8New King James Version (NKJV)
7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
So this is the course I have set for the rest of the month. Stay tuned tomorrow as we cover forgiving.
God bless,
Marty
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