Reading the Bible, finishing Job, Psalms and Proverbs thoughts
To paraphrase the famous Wolf Brand Chili commercial: How long has it been since I’ve updated this blog…[brief pause that's not long enough for anyone to respond]…well, that’s too long.
2011 saw me do something I hadn’t done probably since graduating from Pensacola Christian College in 1995: I read the Bible completely through. About 66 percent of the time I read daily and the other 33 percent I either didn’t read or had to catch up and read several days’ worth.
It obviously is better to read every day so you can focus on quality rather than quantity.
I’ve read of some Christians who read 20 chapters a day and others who read the Bible cover to cover in a month. Perhaps someday I’ll try that, but at this stage, the more I read, the far less I retain and comprehend. After all, the Bible’s not a Archie comic book. When you read in Romans about faith and salvation, each chapter seems like it should broken down over a week’s time…
Today, I finished reading the Book of Job as, in 2012, I’m reading the Bible chronologically. Fascinating book. Job was a godly man who lost everything, wrestled with the question “Why?” while his friends accused him of having unconfessed sin and pride. After all, God never punishes the righteous, does He?
Wrong.
I think of one godly friend, Terry, who while in his early 30s died of cancer. He left behind a wife and young daughter. I don’t know why and won’t know until eternity. Maybe this planet simply didn’t deserve him.
Job learns two things from a discussion with God: 1) Job isn’t not God and 2) Job is going to have to trust God. While the first two chapters indicate why Job went through what he did, nothing at the book’s end indicates Job knew why. It’s possible he did, but it’s also possible Job had to wait until heaven to find have his “Why?” question answered: Because God simply wanted to prove to Satan that humans serve God out of love for God and a desire to know Him rather than how much money and possessions He gives them…
A friend suggested I read Psalm 5 recently. It reminds me of that advice from PCC given to us from Pastor Jim Schettler about reading through a Psalm or Proverb every day. I figure through diligence you can read through both books twice in a single year. Granted, the Psalm 119 is long, but there are several Psalms that are shorter than I am (for the record, I’m about 5’8″).
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12-1-2011 Adventures in Bible reading
This past week has gone surprisingly well as I have managed to do something I haven’t been successful doing in the past: getting up early and reading the Word.
Unless you count the euphoria of rising early for a vacation or Saturday mornings getting up to watch Bugs Bunny cartoons, I have never been a morning person. But yet mornings are really the best time to spend with God. Early mornings when nobody else is up.
So, I’ve reminded myself that by getting to bed at a decent hour, I will have an easier time getting up early to spend it with God.
Currently, all I have left until the end of the year is the Minor Prophets and Proverbs in the Old Testament and then Acts and Romans in the New Testament. It’s been a bumpy ride, but it’s looking like 2011 will be a year in which I read the Bible completely through cover to cover.
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New poems: Eye hasn’t seen, dark planet, a wise man, revisiting Pascal’s Wager, why I’d make a lousy atheist
8-24-2011 — Eye Hasn’t Seen
Eye hasn’t seen
Ear hasn’t heard
What awaits Christians in heaven
I agree with what Jack T. Chick once said:
“If God were to show us heaven
“Right now,
“Our minds couldn’t handle it.”
October is the big 3-0
For me
As a believer, but
Heaven remains an indecipherable enigma,
I can only imagine, indeed,
But our finite minds
Are unable to grasp
An infinite eternity.
It migraines my mind
To think about it.
Forever?
Never ending?
It’s a carousel of happiness
Perpetual spinning
Forever reaching up, getting further away
Beyond the distant universe below
A trillion years
Nothing but a
Brief, beginning blip.
9-3-2011 — The Dark Planet
The dark planet
Harbors only one type of resident.
The keeper of secrets.
Why the darkness?
How the darkness?
Is it better called
Hell? Planeta del infierno? 星球地狱? Планета ада? Hölle Planeten?
Home of the lake of fire?
9-7-2011 — A Wise Man
A wise man
Who doubts that moniker
Told me this about
The possibility of
Extraterrestrial life.
“If God wanted us to know,
“He would’ve mentioned something
“In the Bible.”
I asked him if he thought
The lake of fire
Existed on a planet
In a distant, squinting telescope-proof galaxy.
“Don’t know, don’t care,”
He said.
“All I know is, I won’t be there.”
My conclusion:
Thinking on these things
Is harmless
If it’s not at the expense of what’s important.
9-21-2011 — Revisiting Pascal’s Wager
Only the most obstinate
The princes and princesses of pride
The emperors and empresses of ego
Thoese secretly insecure, unsure
Who smugly cite
Pascal’s Wager
When asked,
“What if you’re wrong?”
It’s a simple question.
Does the answer scare you THAT much?
It would be easier to ask a procrastinating, overdrawn person
What their account balance is.
9-21-2011 — I’d Make a Lousy Atheist
I’d make a lousy atheist.
To eschew logic and common sense
To succomb to stubbornness
And insist
Unbelievably-complex organisms
Magically evolved
Instead of being designed.
I’d also have to believe
2 + 2 = 5
and
All politicians are honest.
Romans 1 tells us
Evidence for God’s existence
Is in surplus.
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To emulate or not to emulate musicians
Last year, when I told a certain person that Michael Jackson had died, they scoffed: “Oh. That pedophile’s dead?”
Even now, it is extremely difficult for me to listen to the song PYT (“Pretty Young Thing” and from his 1982 album Thriller) without laughing.
Jackson was talented, yes, but for many they cannot get past his alleged activities.
It’s a little funny when you consider that many classical composers, such as Mozart and Beethoven, lived less-than-pristine personal lives.
Then there’s David: psalmist, musician, adulterer and murderer. Of course, as we learn in Psalm 51, David was very sorrowful over his sin. Of course, it’s possible Jackson was very sorrowful over his alleged indiscretions (he reportedly settled out of court with a few accusers and was acquitted in one public trial). Eternity will tell.
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Things I suspect in Christianity, theology…
I don’t claim to be right on any of these. Instead, they are just some things the creative, overactive part of my mind suspects…
…Whenever you don’t feel like reading your Bible or going to church, chances are excellent there is something about you that scares Satan to death…
…I believe the Lake of Fire exists on a planet in a distant galaxy. Perhaps that dark planet…
Astronomers estimate that this planet (seen here in an artist’s conception) is darker than coal and has a surface temperature of only 1,800 degrees.
…Speaking of astronomy, had Adam and Eve never sinned in the Garden of Eden, I suspect by now we’d be colonizing other planets, possibly even ones outside our solar system…
…I suspect God sees all the world’s events–from the Garden of Eden to the final battle at the end of the thousand-year millennial reign–happening all right now on some type of theological matrix. As I type, God is seeing Moses leading Israel through the Red Sea. He’s also seeing those who’ve taken the mark of the beast screaming at the scorching heat…
…I believe that if we as Christians were to see heaven right now, it would make almost no sense whatsoever. The finite trying to grasp the infinite?…
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Caught up again, then a little behind
Sometimes I think my Bible reading could be summed up by this television theme song
I was about two weeks behind at one point on my Old Testament reading, then got completely caught up both, and then the procrastination and sleep bugs hit and tonight I’ll have three day’s worth to read to catch up.
One thing I am looking to add is reading from the Psalms each night. Starting next year, I may even break it down further and, every day of the year, read a Psalm or Proverb. Psalm 119, of course, would be split up into about four days.
What is it that makes it so difficult to maintain consistency? We just get too busy in our own lives, perhaps. And, of course, the devil is always there to let us know of the many other things we could be doing with our time…surfing the internet, sleeping, eating, relaxing, watching TV, visiting social sites.
In an effort to get caught up on my reading, I “read” through the entire Book of Joshua. No, I don’t recommend that. The quantity versus quality approach to Bible reading never is successful. Spiritually, you feel far better when you relax, focus and read.
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Catching up on Bible reading
Every few weeks I count up the number of days spent reading the Old Testament and the New Testament. I then compare them with the number of days so far in the year and use that to calculate how far behind I am on my Bible reading.
So far, I am about a week behind schedule.
Once I am caught up, I will compare the days again to make sure I’m caught up. Then I will be able to relax and focus on that day’s reading instead of having to read three days’ worth.
My excuse? There really isn’t one. You have to purpose to yourself to spend time with God every day.
My recommendation? Read each day. Preferably in the morning.
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An Aussie friend talks about how witnessing can be effective
Reading the Bible, and a few thoughts on some friends
Didn’t go to church today, partly because I was a little tired and a little depressed from being back from my vacation.
Was that the right decision?
No.
I did read the Bible and knocked out chunks both Testaments. Am still behind schedule but I know that if I stick to the schedule I have, I will be caught up by August. It can be done: I just have to do it. Period.
Have spoken to God a lot and have received lots of great advice from different people. Soon I will blog about an approach to witnessing that my friend Lyndee suggested. Some won’t like it, I know, but people have to realize that when you talk at the lost instead of to them or with them, you really won’t get anywhere.
I was very encouraged recently to learn of a schoolmate, Dionicio, is now a practicing Christian and is active in his church. Back in Beeville, I and others knew him as Chico, but he told me he prefers DCO these days. As I read his testimony on his Facebook page, it really made me think that God the Great Fisherman uses countless baits, lures, hooks, to bring people to Him. Some through a church sermon, some through hitting rock bottom, some through years of a good friendship with a Christian and some through God allowing them to believe He has chosen them and that they must come to Him.
So now, one of my ventures is to encourage others. Two friends, both of whom have been divorced twice, come to mind.
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Remember Job? His story probably isn’t that unique
I remember once during prayer group at PCC that my suitemate, Tony Ferguson, gave a devotion for that session. Tony spoke on the Book of Job.
For those who don’t remember Sunday School or who aren’t familiar with the Bible, let me summarize: Job is probably the oldest book in the Old Testament. He was a righteous man who feared God and sacrificed regularly. Satan was convinced that Job’s allegiance to God was because God did nothing but bless Job. God allowed Satan first to kill Job’s children and then to strike Job with physical infirmities. In spite of all the heartache and fierce persecution, Job refused to renounce God and wondered aloud why he was going through such torment. His friends were convinced he had unconfessed sin in his life. God finally tells Job’s friends they were wrong in their assessment, and He tells Job that He (God) is in control and it’s not up to Job to question God’s ways.
While God allows Job to heal and become more prosperous than before (in both material possessions and children), one thing I found odd about this story: God never tells Job of the conversation that took place between Satan and God. It’s safe to assume Job knows by now, since he has been in heaven for about 4,500 years, he probably knows by now.
“Job must have been a remarkable guy if God saw fit to brag about him to Satan,” Tony said.
Tony didn’t know it at the time, but over the next few days he gave me a lot to think about.
God placed Job to the challenge because God knew Job would prevail.
It makes me think that such exchanges and challenges between God and Satan occur regularly. Perhaps Satan might say these things:
“Let me move this man’s wife to fall in love with someone else and ask for a divorce, and he will curse you!”
“Allow me to take away this man’s millions, and he will curse you!”
“Allow me to ruin this man’s career through false accusations, and he will curse you!”
And perhaps the toughest of all:
“Allow me to let this man to be falsely sent to prison, and for him to be brutalized and raped, and he will curse you!”
Whenever we go through trials in our life, whether it’s the ending of a marriage, the losing of wealth, reputation, the endurance of a mountain of physical and emotional pain, maybe it all happened because God bragged about us to Satan and is putting us through a trial to show Satan His sovereignty.
Yes, it’s unpleasant, but as the Book of Job dictates, God puts us through nothing we can’t handle. To backslide and quit the Christian walk is foolish. To commit suicide is even more foolish. Both only will result in one sad accomplishment: a life wasted that could’ve been spent being an enormous blessing of evangelization and encouragement.
If you feel like you are enduring what Job went through, don’t quit.
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Back in the blog saddle
It’s easy to convince yourself you’re too tired, too busy to read the Bible daily.
I read this morning and have some catching up to do. If I double my Bible reading, I figure in about two weeks I will be back on target to complete my Bible reading in a year.
Or, I could allott an hour tomorrow to just keep reading until I’ve read several days’ worth.
At the end, it boils down to quality versus quantity. When you read the Bible just to get reading done and not to hear God’s message for you, then you are doing your spirit a gargantuan disservice.
Besides Bible reading, I’m also reading through a book called The Sacred Romance. Lately I’ve thought about how God wants nothing more than to share Himself with us. At night when I’m laying down but not yet tired, during the day when I have some free time, it’s a good time to just talk to God, ask Him questions and see how He chooses to answer us. If Christianity is about following a set of rules that are more based on personal preferences rather than Biblical principles, then it’s in trouble. Even if those rules are based on the Word but are enforced in an uncaring, careless manner, it’s still in trouble. But if Christianity is about developing intimacy with God and then allowing that intimacy to let you see things from His perspective, then there’s hope.
Richard Zowie will turn 30 years old as a Christian in October. He was led to the Lord in October 1981 by Pastor Jimmy Lilly. Post comments here or e-mail them to richardstwoshekels@gmail.com.
Interview with Christian blogger Nolan Bobbitt: Part 2 of 2
We continue with the rest of my interview with Nolan Bobbitt regarding blogs, the internet and Christianity:
Richard Zowie: How crucial, in 2011, is it for a church to have a website and blog?
Nolan Bobbitt: Having a website and blog is not crucial in 2011. Building relationships and creating compelling and interesting content is hugely crucial. If you are going to have a website or blog that makes a difference, it must be focused on helping people, growing people, and deepening relationships. Some ministries might actually be better suited to make use of social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter for interaction. Blogs or websites should be places we go to grow grow and be inspired. That only happens when we have great material to read!
RZ: Do you see your blog as more of an evangelization or edification tool?
NB: My personal blog is more focused on growing believers at this point. I am in the beginning stages of potentially launching two partner blogs (one with me as the primary writer, and the other will actually have a writing network), and at least one of those new sites will be almost exclusively rooted in evangelistic efforts.
RZ: What blog postings tend to get the most traffic for you?
NB: This may be a funny response, but those blog postings that have either unique titles, or feature the name of a high-profile “celebrity Christian.” Again, for me personally, I almost have to distance myself from thinking about blog traffic, so that writing well is my primary focus!
RZ: What advice do you have for people who want to blog or be more successful at it?
NB: Short posts are better than long posts, always! I shoot for 300 words an entry and make it a rule to not go over 500 words. Set aside a regular time to write your blog. I used to try to write 30 minutes a day, six days a week, but I am discovering that I am much better off to set aside a larger chunk of time (90 minutes) less often (twice a week). Do what works for you, but the only way to get better at writing is to write more often! Read blogs that you want to be like. Build relationships with those bloggers by referencing them, linking to their posts, and leaving comments. Don’t ask for anything from them, especially at the beginning. I have at least 2 high profile CEOs who read my blog at least sporadically and it’s because I became “friends” with them through consistent comments on their sites and through Twitter conversations. At the same time, be “you” on your blog. If you can’t be who God made you to be, you are wasting your time and everyone else’s. If growing a large following is your primary goal, don’t blog–twitter instead. Blogging should be reserved for those who love creating and sharing content!
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Church, Bible reading, this blog and, well…
Went to church last night. Had to walk there since I did not have the family van readily available. No problems: I walked the mile to church in about 15 minutes. Great exercise. It seems that every time you have to make a strong effort to attend church it ends up being well worth it. Bible study and then a chat with a few people. I obtained the name of the lady who runs the church’s library ministry, so Lord willing, I will be able to serve there in a small capacity soon…
…Finished reading Isaiah today, and in chapter 65 was the passage where the Left Behind story teaches that the unsaved during Christ’s Millennial Reign will have 100 years of life to accept Him. If they are unsaved on their hundredth birthday, they will die. Time will tell if this is accurate.
Read through Hebrews’ Faith Hall of Fame and saw that Samson and Sarah were there. Samson I remember from a past reading, Sarah’s presence in the HOF was a surprise. You know Samson: the cocky strongman who allowed his hair to be cut off and was left to the brutality of the Philistines. I wonder if his faith involved his belief that once his hair grew back his strength would return? Hard to say. I also imagine Sarah’s faith was in her belief she would indeed eventually give birth to a son in her old age, even after she took her eyes off God and allowed her husband Abraham to sleep with Hagar, her maid…
…As far as this blog goes, I think I have found a theme that’s good for now. Someday I hope to redesign this blog to make it far more unique. In the meantime, I will post when I have something to say rather than putting something up on a daily basis.
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Interview with blogger and fellow PCC alum Nolan Bobbitt: Part 1 of 2
Nolan Bobbitt, a fellow Pensacola Christian College graduate, is a great example of someone I knew of at college (but not on a personal basis) but have, in recent years, exchanged e-mails with him every so often. I remember at PCC he had a reputation as a friendly, wonderful guy who loved people and wanted to serve in the ministry.
After I graduated from PCC and spent time in the proverbial real world (which included a four-year enlistment in the U.S. Army, where so many forbidden things at college were done by most as an afterthought), I began to discover the internet and websites that were both favorable and not favorable to PCC.
On one website I discovered an essay by Nolan titled: “ISOLATIONISM: The Gospel of the Fundamentalist Movement.” Sometime in the near future I will post it on my blog, as it is much-needed reading about how Christians should be insulated but not isolated from the world.
Nolan Bobbitt
These days, among Nolan’s ministries is a website, where he blogs. As I’ve read his blog I have grown to admire both the content and the design. Just a few years ago, I learned what a blog was, how to choose a server, how to post, how to create one working within the allowed parameters. And, yes, how to deal with angry readers who think I’m far crazier than I actually am.
Since blogging is still relatively new to some Christians, I decided to ask Nolan a few questions about blogging, how he got into it and how Christians can use it as a ministerial tool…
Richard Zowie: When did you first start using the internet?
Nolan Bobbitt: I started using the internet back in the dial-up days, around 1995.
RZ: When did you start blogging?
NB: Wow, it’s hard to believe, but I started blogging back in 2005.
RZ: What types of growing pains did you have when you first started blogging? Do you still find yourself wanting to tinker with your blog’s layout, format and what you write about?
NB: Sure I went through the typical blog growing pains, and the funny thing is, there are still some pains there from blogging, but they are a different kind. In the first couple of years, I was really consumed with growing an audience and trying to get high-profile “celebrity Christian” bloggers to read my stuff or write a guest post so that I could have their readership come my way. I obsessed over having a cool blog layout and header.
These days, it’s a little different…I obsess over writing something of substance and value, rather than growing a broad readership. I actually have taken an unintentional break from blogging. I was getting into a really good rhythm and posting at least 4-5 times a week, and then, I just stopped writing. At this point, I really need to update the “look” and layout of my blog, but I’d actually rather just have something that’s worth reading posted there more consistently.
RZ: Do you run across Christians who are opposed to blogs or to being on the internet? If so, what do you tell them?
NB: Oh, I am sure that there are a few Christians who are opposed to blogging or the internet, because they think that it is too “worldly.” I would tell the opposed that the internet may be one of the greatest evangelism tools that the 21st century will see if harnessed to further the Gospel in a compelling way!
In Part 2, Nolan will discuss his thoughts of how blogs can be used for Christian ministries.
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Caffeine and Bible reading
Caffeine is a drug. One friend told me it’s fatal in its purest form. Thankfully, what we drink in sodas, tea and coffee isn’t in a fatal form.
However, caffeine consumed excessively is not a good thing. I do not see any harm, though, in consuming it in the form of above drinks as a way to get up in the morning.
I thought about this around 6:45 a.m. as I read passages in Isaiah and Hebrews while my sons got ready for school (my wife and I take turns driving them in the morning for Early Bird session). As I read, I found myself re-reading the same verses or reading and not remembering what I read or not comprehending.
One evangelist once said that once he wakes up in the morning, he turns over and gets his Bible and starts reading. It’s commendable he has the energy and discipline for that.
I’m concluding that it is best to read the Word of God in the morning after you are alert and awake. If that means drinking coffee, tea or a soda (or a “pop”, as it’s called in Michigan), fine. If it means getting in some exercise–such as a nice walk–fine. If it means taking a shower, fine.
So, tomorrow morning I will do that–read the Word after I have gotten myself nice and awake.
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Another successful day reading the Word
Almost done reading Isaiah. Will complete that in a week or so. Read Isaiah 53 today. Also will be finishing Hebrews in about a week. Had a short chapter in Hebrews today but decided against reading an extra one. The whole quality-versus-quantity thing, you know.
I woke up at 8:30 a.m. to go to work at 10 a.m., and when I got up, I toyed with sleeping until 9 a.m. But I nixed that idea when I realized I would not have enough time to take a shower and get ready and read the Bible. Small victory again.
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Another successful day of reading the Bible
Got up this morning, took a shower and then returned back to my bedroom and read passages from Isaiah and Hebrews.
Wouldn’t it be great to make a habit out of this? I thought.
Indeed, it would. To start off each day reading the Bible is a wondrous accomplishment. Still, I expect many battles along the way. Satan hates Christians and wants to throw as many obstacles as possible into their paths. A person said if you are having an easy time living as a Christian, then Satan must not be too worried about you. No ego intended, but I think that’s a good statement.
So now, as I read and am caught up, I relax and focus on reading what God’s Word says and thinking of how I can apply it to my life each and every day.
As I read now, there is so much that is difficult to process since it has, sadly, been years since I’ve read through the entire Bible. I trust that in future readings the passages won’t seem as daunting.
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Who wrote Hebrews?
I am reading through Hebrews, which, the title of this posting probably gave that away. Many wonder who wrote Hebrews. Traditionally, they say Paul. Others say it wasn’t Paul because it wasn’t his style. (Paul begins his epistles by identifying himself while Hebrews begins with the word “God”).
So, who wrote Hebrews?
I know the answer.
Not me!
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The joys of being Isaiah the prophet
Tradition says that Isaiah the prophet was murdered by being sawn in half inside a hollowed-out log on orders from King Manasseh. We presume this was before Manny repented of being a wicked king and became a born-again upstanding monarch. Perhaps he just grew tired of Isaiah’s prophecies of how wickedness would be judged.
Isaiah’s words remind me of the nondescript FBI agent in the hilarious movie Midnight Run who has to deliver bad news to the tall, imposing Agent Alonso Mosley (played brilliantly by Yaphet Kotto). Mosley is eating lunch at a diner when he’s told they were unable to capture bounty hunter Jack Walsh and government witness Jonathan “The Duke” Mardukas…
FBI agent: I have some news for you about Walsh and the Duke.
Mosley: Is it going to upset me?
Agent: Yes, sir, I think it’s safe to say it will.
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Caught up on my Bible reading! Zowie!
Thankfully, my parents are not offended by my taking our surname in vain. It’s catchy, so no worries. I wish I hadn’t been so shy about that two decades ago when I absolutely insisted–with no success-that my classmates call me Richard and not Zowie. I might as well have asked them to throw away their Van Halen 1984 albums.
So, back to the ranch…
This morning, while doubling my reading in Isaiah and Hebrews, I got caught up on my Bible reading. No more having to read four to six Old Testament chapters a day and no more reading two chapters in the New Testament. I can now focus on quality and not quantity.
I briefly considered keeping my pace so I could read the Bible through twice this year but decided against it and felt it was yet another desperate obstacle of Satan’s to discourage me from reading God’s Word. I take it that The Adversary Formerly Known as Lucifer must not like it when people read in Revelation about his being cast into the lake of fire and how, for the first time ever, he will feel something he won’t like–physical pain. This kind has no morphine to look forward to: it’ll be eternal, excruciating and unspeakably terrible.
So now, I sigh, take a breath and get back into a normal routine. A brochure from the Roloff Homes in Corpus Christi, Texas states the homes had this very strict rule for all its staff and those in its homes: each morning, you begin with devotions. No Bible, no breakfast. No exceptions. Perhaps that is a rule I should modify and implement for myself: No Bible, no internet/facebook/blogging.
Sounds great, doesn’t it?
Coming soon: my potential adventures serving my church’s library ministry and an interview with an outstanding Christian blogger (no, I won’t be interviewing myself–far from it).
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