Published every two weeks
by Joel Hendon
Piedmont, Alabama 36272
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
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Published every two weeks by Joel Hendon Piedmont, Alabama 36272 Tuesday, February 19, 2002 | DISCLAIMER: Some articles and links to pages may be those which contain false doctrine. These are printed for those interested in learning more concerning others views. The fact that they are printed in this publication does not mean that we endorse them. |
Satan is working at his best these days (overtime) and I feel sure he is smiling. He has about one-third of the world's population, Muslims, who are determined to destroy all religions other than Islam. And beside that, he has numerous people within the Lord's church, as well as denominations, who are determined to change the worship of God into wild entertainment. |
There is something about darkness. . . Children cry out at night in fear of
darkness. They associate darkness with monsters. In fear they "feel" the
monsters in the room.
Darkness also intensifies fears for adults--hearts pound, pulses race, sweat
pours. Moving to a new place to live is a wonderful experience--in the day
time. How long does it take you to identify all the new night sounds? How
many nights are necessary before you "sleep in peace" in the knowledge that
new sounds are not new dangers?
In the winter when daylight is short and darkness is long, adult depression
increases. My Dad died of Alzheimer's. For months, as sunset faded into
darkness, he experienced "sundown syndrome." Darkness transformed him into a
different person.
People who experience light's blessings also have a healthy respect for
darkness. An exhilarating walk in the woods on a sunny day is an adventure
in fear at night. A sidewalk traveled without thought in daylight becomes a
trek of nervousness in the dark.
Darkness deepens loneliness. It transforms tranquillity into anxiety. It
changes calm into nervousness. It magnifies stress. Have you ever yearned
for daylight to come quickly? Have you ever dreaded the coming of darkness?
To experience absolute darkness is horrible. The total absence of light
immobilizes us. When I was a teen, my family visited Mammoth Cave. At a
level of well over 100 feet underground, our guide had everyone sit down.
With full explanation, he turned off all light. He had us sit down because
in absolute darkness you are easily disoriented. You can lose your
balance. It was so dark you could touch your eyeball with your finger tip
without seeing it.
Jesus came to provide light to our world. John declared it was Jesus' life
that provides us light (John 1:4). Jesus understood that he came to be the
light source for our world. On an occasion of public teaching, he declared,
"I am the light of the world; he who follows me shall not walk in darkness,
but shall have the light of life" (John 8:12). Through Jesus we see how to
live. Light fills our life because Jesus is our light source.
Because light makes it possible to see and to distinguish, light reveals.
Some do not like what they see. They would rather live in darkness than see.
Jesus explained to Nicodemus that evil people love darkness and hate light
because light exposes actions. Those who hate light avoid it. They do not
want to clearly look at self, do not want to distinguish between good and
evil within their lives (John 3:19-21).
Do you live in light or in darkness? To you, is light a blessing or a
curse? Do you intently look in your life to see yourself? Do you allow
Jesus to "turn the light on"? Does the light that comes from Jesus' life
give you life? Does the light Jesus provides show you how to live?
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This post is brought your way by Sermon Fodder. To subscribe drop a note toSermon_Fodder-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Please leave this attached if you forward this to friends. ========================================= Abraham Lincoln Denies A Loan Abraham Lincoln wrote this letter to his stepbrother, John D. Johnston, who had written Lincoln that he was "broke" and "hard-pressed" on the family farm in Coles County, Illinois, and needed a loan. Lincoln's offer of a matching grant, as we call it today, was a recognition that "this habit of uselessly wasting time, is the whole difficulty," and that getting into the habit of working was far more important to Johnston than getting a loan. Dear Johnston: Your request for eighty dolars, I do not think it best to comply with now. At the various times when I have helped you a little, you have said to me, "We can get along very well now," but in a very short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now this can only happen by some defect in your conduct. What that defect is, I think I know. You are not lazy, and still you are an idler. I doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day's work, in any one day. You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it. This habit of uselessly wasting time, is the whole difficulty; it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children, that you should break this habit. It is more important to them, because they have long to live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it, easier than they can get out after they are in. You are now in need of some ready money; and what I propose is , that you shall go to work, "tooth and nail," for somebody who will give you money for it. Let Father and your boys take charge of your things at home - prepare for a crop, and make the crop, and you go to work for the best money wages, or in discharge of any debt you owe, that you can get. And to secure you a fair reward or your labor, I now promise you that for every dollar you will, between this and the first of May, get for your own labor wither in money or in your own indebtedness, I will then give you one other dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work. In this, I do not mean you shall go off to St. Louis, or the lead mines, or the gold mines, in California, but I mean for you to go at it for the best wages you can get close to home - in Coles County. Now if you will do this, you sill soon be out of debt, and what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you out, next year you will be just as deep in as ever. you say you would almost give your place in Heaven for $70 or $80. Then you value your place in Heaven very cheaply, for I am sure you can with the offer I make you get the seventy or eighty dollars for four of five months' work. You say if I funish you the money you will deed me the land, and if you don't pay the money back, you will deliver possession - Nonsense! If you can't now live with the land, how will you then live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not now mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will follow my advice, you will find it worth more than eight times eighty dollars to you. Affectionately, Your Brother A. Lincloln |
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