Well, we had a nice warn and easy rain when we awakened this day, but then it stopped. Though the predictions are for more rain today and for the rest of the week. We are 4 inches low for the year, I believe I mentioned that, but we shall leave the weather in the hands of our God, and rest content.
The Houston Chronicle has a little section titled, “Looking Back”. Today’s item mentioned that on this date in 1587 Mary, Queen of Scotts, was beheaded after she was implicated in a plot to assassinate her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. We know stuff like that has always been going on, but we don’t seem to gather any insight from it. So many times we are caught unaware by happenings in our lives.
Our financial problems will be in the news for some time. It seems it always takes us a longtime to gather insight. Why did this happen? One simple answer is we spent too much, often way beyond our money, and charged things, for the housing prices are always rising and there is always tomorrow. And our savings dwindled to almost nothing.
Here is a surprising thing. Your eyes blink twenty-five times an hour, and each blink last one fifth of a second. So, if you take a ten hour car trip and drive 40 miles an hour you will drive 20 miles with your eyes closed. That’s natural.
But there are people who drift through life with their eyes closed. They look, but don’t really see. They don’t develop insight. An example are the disciples in Mark 6. They had just seen Jesus feed 5,000 people with 5 loaves of bread and two fish with so much as 12 baskets filled with leftovers. Then He sent them on a boat trip and they ran into that storm. Jesus came, walking on water, and rescued them, and “they were astonished, or they had no gained any insight from the loaves, for their hearts were hardened.” Mark 6.51b-52.
The letter to Hebrews complains about that too. “11 We have a lot to explain about this. But since you have become too lazy to pay attention, explaining it to you is hard. 12 By now you should be teachers. Instead, you still need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word. You need milk, not solid food. 13 All those who live on milk lack the experience to talk about what is right. They are still babies. 14 However, solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to know the difference between good and evil.”
Discernment between good and evil, for instance, is the result of training, study, prayer, and careful attention to what our God says and what is happening. Let not Satan divert your attention and cause dull hearing and lack of insight in this world we live in. May God ever help us guard against such.
GPD 2/9/09
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