Tuesday, July 26th

Well, here I am again with my entry. I find with doing this blog comes all sorts of thoughts and feelings about it. One is the thought "WOW, I am going to be held accountable for my quiet times." Then another thought is "wow, I an GOING to be held accountable for my quiet times." But, as I have now done this for, I guess about two weeks now, I have seen another thing come into play. I am having some really DEEP quiet times. I am really getting a lot out of them. If there is anyone out there reading this, you know - great, let me know. If not, well I am still getting a lot out of this for myself, and I think that is probably the best thing for me and my relationship with God, and that is what really matters.

Anyway, on to what I learned today.

Contempt. Con·tempt. noun. meaning:

• The feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn.
• The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
• Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.

There is so much more that I could have "bold-de-sized" (that is a johnny-ism) in there, but I thought I would stop before the whole thing was high-lighted. I saw this word and thought "how have I done this to God?" And then this scripture came to mind:

Matthew 25:31-46
"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'

"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

So my thought is this... what I have done to any of my friends, co-workers, brothers and sisters in the church, and family - whether it be an attitude of "well, gosh, I knew that, you must be stupid for not knowing that," or anything of the like, that's something I will have to answer to God about when I knock on his door. AND, it goes further. What about those people who I see on the street, homeless? Broken down car on the side of the road? Whatever the situation may be, if there is any attitude about it, I need to repent and get that out of my character. Sometimes, going to dictionary.com can be so convicting to see the TRUE meaning of words. So, in conclusion, whatever I do to someone who isn't wearing a white robe, sandals, long beard (A-LA-SISTINE CHAPEL), well, I might as well be. That's how God looks at it. I got this all from a defination, how about that.

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