Friday, January 20th, 2006
A Study on Love – Edition #17
Seeing as how the elderly gentleman had serious hearing problems for a number of years, he went to the doctor. The doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%. The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, "Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased you can hear again." To which the gentleman said, "Oh, I haven't told my family yet. I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've changed my will five times!"
Joshua 23:1-11
1 After a long time had passed and the LORD had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then old and well advanced in years, 2 summoned all Israel—their elders, leaders, judges and officials—and said to them: "I am old and well advanced in years. 3 You yourselves have seen everything the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the LORD your God who fought for you. 4 Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain—the nations I conquered—between the Jordan and the Great Sea in the west. 5 The LORD your God himself will drive them out of your way. He will push them out before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.
6 "Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left. 7 Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow down to them. 8 But you are to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have until now.
9 "The LORD has driven out before you great and powerful nations; to this day no one has been able to withstand you. 10 One of you routs a thousand, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as he promised. 11 So be very careful to love the LORD your God.
One of the hardest things to do in regards to love is respect. As God had told him earlier, he tells the people to be very strong. And when my love is strong, I can see how God fights for me. If the devil had his way, I would constantly be bombarded with stuff. As it is, I have enough worries each and every day… and if Satan could have his way, I would have a million times more.
Careful (adj.):
- Attentive to potential danger, error, or harm; cautious.
- Conscientious.
- Exercising caution.
As the family was not careful with loving their grandfather, I need to be the opposite. I need to be careful that my heart is right and love my family, my earthly and heavenly family, and especially my Lord and God above. I need to be cautious and attentive to things. I need to be conscientious. I need to be thorough, persistent, and ever unceasing with my love. And that is a challenge, to say the least, because I can tend to be critical. I can be critical with myself and with others, and that means I am not looking at the potential danger… there are many errors with that outlook, but at least now I can make the necessary changes. Anyway… a short one for today… have a great weekend if I don’t get back online. Johnny Out.
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