I was out of the house and down the road very early today. I will be goose hunting with my nephew this morning. Hopefully we will have some geese in the freezer tonight.
There will be a lot of pumpkins carved up this weekend as kids celebrate Trick Or Treat,. I am impressed with some of the carving work I have seen this week. In our neighborhood we have a few carving artists.
I for one am not fond pf pumpkin carving. In order to have a great pumpkin you have to start by removing the seeds and pulp from the inside of the orange sphere. When I was a kid I thought that this part of the task was gross and I shied away from it whenever possible. If you leave the junk inside the pumpkin, your masterpiece will rot from the inside out. You won't have much of a jack o lantern.
Our lives are the same way. If we don't get them cleaned up and keep them cleaned up we begin to rot and what were small things now become big things and are more painful to deal with.
In order for people to see the light shine in us from Jesus Christ we need to stay off of the guilt and pity pots and clean up our lives. God clearly commands us to do so.
Romans 1:28-32New International Version (NIV)
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice
To carve or not to carve??
Marty
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