TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE

Newsletter 137 April 26. 2009

When I logged on this morning, the topmost news fragment dealt with the many people who were struggling to make ends meet on an income of $250,000 a year. I thought I was alone. I have been struggling on an income of $28,000 a year, and live in Dallas, Texas. There are many others like me.

The problem is that we are trying to solve a problem that is not our responsibility. God created this world to be our temporary habitant, for the material phase of our being. Just as Adam and Eve were placed in Eden and given the responsibility to tend and care for it, we are here on this planet to tend and care for it. Our permanent habitant is Heaven. Jesus, speaking through Luke, the apostle makes this most clear. Man is not only physical, he is also, like God the Father, a spiritual being created to live in a spiritual home.

Luke 12:22-34 (King James Version)

22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

The bottom line is also the last line of Jesus’ lesson. “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.“

We are but caretakers, servants of the Lord and what we call our own, He created out of nothing. It is temporary. What Jesus has gone to prepare for us is permanent. When it is ready for His faithful stewards to move in, this temporary place will be abandoned and burned up. We are but the “little flock.” Our shepherd, whom we follow, Jesus, has gone ahead to lead us to our permanent home.
As he has said before, “Come, follow me:, I am the way, the truth and the life.”

READ THE BIBLE THROUGH AGAIN IN 2009

APRIL
26th. Sunday – Joshua 17:14-18:28, Luke 22:47-71, Proverbs 10:21- 32
27th. Monday – Joshua 19, Luke 23:1-25, Psalm 51:10-19
28th. Tuesday – Joshua 20,21, Luke 23:26-56, Psalm 52
29th. Wednesday – Joshua 22,23, Luke 24:1-27, Psalm 53
30th. Thursday – Joshua 24, Luke 24:28-53, Proverbs 11:1-6
MAY
1st. Friday – Judges 1:1-2:15, John 1:1-28, Psalm 54
2nd. Saturday – Judges 2:16-3:31, John 1:29-51, Psalm 55:1-11

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Who Came First?
A computer scientist, a surgeon, and a civil engineer were gathered at the pub. The surgeon boasts, "Surgery is the oldest technology in the world! It's in the Bible. God removed Adam's rib while he slept. This is clear evidence that surgery pre-dates all other technological endeavors!"

Without so much as a beat, the civil engineer says, "Well, before that, God formed the Earth, the stars, and everything from nothing but chaos. He created rivers, mountians and oceans. This was clear evidence that civil engineering pre-dates all other technological endeavors."

Not to be outdone, the computer scientist points out, "Yes, but where do you think the Chaos came from?"
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OUR PERSONAL NOTE:
This week we checked back on two affordable Seniors Retirement apartments we had placed our name on the waiting list a year and a half ago. We are near the top of the list on both. One said we could move in late June, as the present occupants have just served notice they were leaving, but we are not quite that ready. Today, being the semi--annual yard sale in our community there will be a lot of people cruising the streets, so I have placed a second “For sale by owner” sign out on the main frontage street with a special offer, just for the day! Next week we will place it with an agent who will set his own price if it is not reserved today.