Drug Problem?
Author Unknown
I had a “drug” problem when I was a young person and a teenager. I was “drug” to church on Sunday morning, I was “drug” to church on Sunday night, I was “drug” to church on Wednesday evening.
I was “drug” to Bible study every Sunday morning and I was “drug” to Vacation Bible School every summer.
I was “drug” to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents.
Thos “drugs” are still in my veins and they affect my behavior in everything I do, say and think. The “drugs” I received as a child and teenage are stronger than cocaine, crack, heroin or any other illegal substance available.
If more of our children had this kind of “drug” problem, America would certainly be a better place.
WORDS: WHAT DO THEY MEAN?
Roy Lanier Jr.
Preachers have an unusual opportunity to listen to people. In the course of their many conversations, many promises are give, statements made, offered. Perhaps it is easy to see, then, that some people do not “say what they mean.”
“They say” – usually means “I heard it from at least one source but everybody believes it.”
“It needs to be done” – means “ I’m not going to do anything about it but the church/you ought to!”
“I’ve heard some criticism” – usually means “I’m against it but I don’t have the nerve to state my beliefs!”
“The whole church is upset” – usually means “Two or three loud mouths have turned their venom loose!”
“It might bring criticism” – means “I know it should be done, but it just takes too much effort for me to do it!”
“If memory serves me correctly” – really means “I’m going to say something I’m not sure of, whether true or false, but if somebody discovers I’m wrong, I can always blame my memory!”
“Preacher, I’ll be there if I am not providentially hindered” – nearly always means “If I’m not there you can blame God for it!”
“I’ll come every time I can” usually means, “If I don’t have something better to do I’ll be there!”
You can take it from there! Christians should be far more careful to mean what they say and say what they mean than the people of the world. Jesus says a plain “yes” or “no” is suitable for a Christian’s word (Matt. 5:36-37).
“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified and by they words thou shalt be condemned” (Matt 12:36-37).
An Egyptian hieroglyph shows men holding ropes linked to something like a ‘giant bird’ in the sky. This has prompted the suggestion that purpose-built kites may have been used to help in constructing Egypt’s famous pyramids. To test this, aeronautics experts rigged up a bully system connecting a 430 sq. ft. ‘para-foil’ sail to a 15 ft. obelisk in an endeavor to raise the stone from a horizontal to vertical, using only the wid. Although the wind was only around half as strong as that calculated to be necessary, the 3.5 tons column was lifted to the vertical in just 40 seconds. (New Scientist, 27 October 2001, p. 43 as reported in Creation, 24(2) March-May, pg. 27
I thought these were pretty interesting articles. They came across my desk last week. We need more “drug” problems like the first article. Truly if parents “drug” their children and themselves to the services of the church we might have a better country to live it. The second article is also right on target. I wonder if we said what we meant what would happen? The last piece was very interesting to me. Men have wondered about how the Egyptians built the pyramids for years. Each stone in the pyramids is huge. The precision with which they were cut is still unknown and then how they got each stone into place is not known. Some have try to tell us that these people were not as intelligent as we are today, but we are still trying to explain some of their buildings to this day. Seems to me they were very intelligent.
Some thoughts for you to ponder, love, Keith.
