Scripture

“When you see the Levitical priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord your God, move out from your positions and follow them. Since you have never traveled this way before, they will guide you.

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Life is either a darling adventure or mere existence.

~Helen Keller

Charles L. Allen wrote a book entitled, All Things Are Possible Through Prayer; it is a great book and is is filled with wonderful stories. In this book, Dr. Allen tells about a man born in New York city where he lived his entire life. He left his apartment each morning, went to his shop a few minutes away by subway and then back to his apartment. He worked six days a week in his shop and stayed in the bed all day on Sundays. He followed this same routine for 50 years and never, not once, did he venture beyond his small little world.

This man lived in New York city for 50 years and never saw the Empire State Building, Yankee Stadium, the Statue of Liberty, Time Square, 5th Avenue, the Rockefeller Center or Central Park. He lived less than an hour from all these attractions but he was afraid to go somewhere he had never been.

Joshua told the timid Israelites, “You see the chest that represents God’s presence, you follow it because God is leading you to a place you’ve never been.” I can guarantee you, God wants to take you to places you’ve never been.  Do you have the faith to follow or are you paralyzed by fear. Some folks are made for the boat, they cannot step outside their comfort zone. Dr. Jack Taylor referred to these faint-hearted followers as the “Boat People.” Peter, one out of twelve went overboard while the others stayed glued to the boat and all of the boat people say…“Peter got wet.”  Yeah, he got in a bit of trouble but Jesus got him out. He also walked on water. I heard a black preacher say once, “God can’t get you out of something until you have enough faith to get into something.”

Why do we want to live in a rut? A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out. Get out of the rut and do something new, refreshing, exciting, wear something different, sit in a different pew: get out of your stinking comfort zone and go overboard for a change.

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Have not heard a word from Bill Nelson, Ken’s son. I am assuming Ken is still in critical condition. My Tuesdays begin early with BREAKFAST AND THE BIBLE at 5:15 at Warehouse Coffee in Hartselle. We had around 20 this morning.

I sat up late last night and watch the movie STALIN starring Robert Duval. It was accurate but it only showed a tiny bit of the evil he committed. The communist party leaders underestimated Stalin. They thought that could use him to do the dirty and then get rid of him but he beat them to the draw and had all of them executed except one. At the end of the movie it says he was responsible for tens of millions of death. Counting the lost of his soldiers, I would say it is more like 40 million. Interesting movie, June even watched with me.

I hope you have a great day and thanks for reading the blog.