Ambiguity

Someone asked me, “how can you tell a Christian?” I said, “a Christian is in love with God's Word. The bed is too short and the blanket is too narrow, something is going to always stick out. You cannot hide your commitment, you cannot get enough of it...the written word, the musical word. You want to commit most of it to memory.” I have thought of this often, “do I know very many people who are truly Christian?” When I call friends or relatives, I can hear a television set going...they always have time for that type of slop (liquid garbage), but, they never speak to me of God's Word, their devotion to it. Nothing makes me happier than to enjoy Christian communication-relationship with another Christian.

One small boy went to pet store wanting to buy a puppy, he told the owner, “I have two dollars and fifty seven cents. I saw a mother with her puppies in the window, I want to buy one of the puppies.” The owner said, “these puppies sell for thirty dollars.” The owner opened the door of the cage, and the mother and her puppies ran out, except for one which was much slower than the others. The owner said, “which puppy do you like best?“ to which the boy said, “I like the one who is running slow.” The owner replied, “no, you do not want that one, he was born deformed. He will never be able to run or be as active as you'd want a puppy to be. He is not worth as much as the others.” The young boy pulled up his trouser legs, showing a prosthesis and said, “I am not very fast either, but he is worth just as much as the others. I will pay you $2.57 today and 50 cents each month until I pay the 30 dollars for the puppy.” The disabled boy left the store with the disabled puppy.

Only the disabled can understand disability, no person can understand blindness except the blind. No person can understand God without God.

I have told many people, over the years. I truly believe most people think that one who is blind can see most of the time... can see when it's time to get dressed, can see to shave, can see to prepare food, can see what you are eating in restaurant when you realize something is wrong with the food, can see how to get a thorn out of your hand, can see the disgust of the “normal” when you ask for help.

God has a way of equalizing everything, we know he loves best those who have lost most. I will never understand how and why Christians are so envious of the lost...wanting to act like them, look like them, think like them. 85% of Americans say they believe in God, yet most find very little time for a God.

If this Psalm does not change your life, nothing will:

(Psalm 73)

1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.