Well I must say that day eleven was a lot better than the previous days....just because it was a nice day....no plumbing issues to deal with, no horses escaped...I just pray I can get a better handle on understanding the last books of Daniel. I have determined in my own head that my understanding of this book will come, just maybe not on my schedule.
Last evening being Wednesday the Women of the Word meet and we talked about a number of things and prayer requests were made and we prayed and studied the 23 chapter of 1st Samuel. In case you don't know what these chapters are about, they are about Daniel and King Saul. What a rocky relationship they had....they started out with both of them liking each other and then the women of there town sang a song about Saul killing his thousands and David his ten thousands. This was all it took. A seed of jealousy was planted in Saul's garden of emotions. A sad seed, because this completely ruined the relationship between Saul and David. Saul became a hunter and David became the hunted. And Saul's son Jonathan got caught up in the middle because he loved David.
Now what is really interesting in these books of the Bible, you can actually find correlations between what was going on with Saul and David and Jonathan and find in today, real life situations that are similar, jealousy hasn't changed from way back from before Jesus, this is still an incredibly dangerous emotion. And if you or a loved one has a problem with jealousy get help to deal with this. It really can be a very dangerous emotion when it is carried to an extreme. And for some devilish reason this can happen in an instant....(did you catch the pun?)
What seeds have you planted in your garden of emotions lately. The best ones to plant are the seeds of loving you brothers or sisters, and I am not referring to your actual siblings I am referring to all the people that you come into contact with on a daily basis. How about the seed of helpfulness, or kindness, or how the seed of courtesy, it is so sad to say, but I really feel that common courtesy is fading away as a kind of old school idea. I do still think that this is a good thing today. And maybe we just need to practice this a little more. It doesn't have to go away, it will only go away if we let it....think about this!
Time to get ready for work and to find someone to bless God is so good, let's share some of this goodness.
Last evening being Wednesday the Women of the Word meet and we talked about a number of things and prayer requests were made and we prayed and studied the 23 chapter of 1st Samuel. In case you don't know what these chapters are about, they are about Daniel and King Saul. What a rocky relationship they had....they started out with both of them liking each other and then the women of there town sang a song about Saul killing his thousands and David his ten thousands. This was all it took. A seed of jealousy was planted in Saul's garden of emotions. A sad seed, because this completely ruined the relationship between Saul and David. Saul became a hunter and David became the hunted. And Saul's son Jonathan got caught up in the middle because he loved David.
Now what is really interesting in these books of the Bible, you can actually find correlations between what was going on with Saul and David and Jonathan and find in today, real life situations that are similar, jealousy hasn't changed from way back from before Jesus, this is still an incredibly dangerous emotion. And if you or a loved one has a problem with jealousy get help to deal with this. It really can be a very dangerous emotion when it is carried to an extreme. And for some devilish reason this can happen in an instant....(did you catch the pun?)
What seeds have you planted in your garden of emotions lately. The best ones to plant are the seeds of loving you brothers or sisters, and I am not referring to your actual siblings I am referring to all the people that you come into contact with on a daily basis. How about the seed of helpfulness, or kindness, or how the seed of courtesy, it is so sad to say, but I really feel that common courtesy is fading away as a kind of old school idea. I do still think that this is a good thing today. And maybe we just need to practice this a little more. It doesn't have to go away, it will only go away if we let it....think about this!
Time to get ready for work and to find someone to bless God is so good, let's share some of this goodness.
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