May 10th, 2006
Today is Mackenzie’s 1st Birthday!
The Tongue – Edition #30: Quarreling Aside
(First some good chain mail that I verified is true from Snopes.com)
Some good advice, and you may know this already, but it is good to hear it again.
A 36 year old woman had an accident and totaled her car. A resident of Kilgore, Texas, she was traveling between Gladewater & Kilgore. It was raining, though not excessive, when her car suddenly began to hydroplane and literally flew through the air.
She was not seriously injured but very stunned at the sudden occurrence!
When she explained to the highway patrolman what had happened he told her something that every driver should know: NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON. She had thought she was being cautious by setting the cruise control and maintaining a safe consistent speed in the rain. But the highway patrolman told her that if the cruise control is on and your car begins to hydroplane - your tires loose contact with the pavement and car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed and take off like an airplane. She told the patrolman that was exactly what had occurred.
We all know you have little or no control over a car when it begins to hydroplane. You are at the mercy of the Good Lord. The highway patrol estimated her car was actually traveling through the air at 10 to 15 miles per hour faster than the speed set on the cruise control.
The patrolman said this warning should be listed, on the driver’s seat sun-visor: NEVER USE THE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE PAVEMENT IS WET OR ICY along with the airbag warning.
We tell our teenagers to set the cruise control and drive a safe speed but we don't tell them to use the cruise control only when the pavement is dry. The only person the accident victim found, who knew this (besides the patrolman), was a man who had had a similar accident, totaled his car and sustained severe injuries.
OK, that is it for the service announcement. I actually didn’t know that it was bad to not have the cruise on during rain. Oops. Of course, when it is pouring down rain, I don’t have it on anyway, but it is good to know. Now, the medical treatment that I am going through is doing me well. I have much more energy. I am able to walk and function a lot better and have less pain. I have done some research on what it is that I am going through. If you are interested in seeing the exact link, you can check it out at: http://quitetimes4me.blogspot.com/2006/05/multiple-sclerosis.html or go to webMD.com and check it out there yourself, should you choose.
1st Corinthians 3:1-23
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly - mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?
What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe - as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a “fool” so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”; and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future - all are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
1st Corinthians 3:1 worldly:
sarkikos
sar-kee-kos'
Pertaining to flesh, that is, (by extension) bodily, temporal, or (by implication) animal, unregenerate: - carnal, fleshly.
1st Corinthians 3:1 infants:
nēpios
nay'-pee-os
From an obsolete particle ne; implying negation; not speaking, that is, an infant (minor); figuratively a simple minded person, an immature Christian: - babe, child (+ -ish).
1st Corinthians 3:2 solid food:
brōma
bro'-mah
Food (literally or figuratively), especially (ceremonial) articles allowed or forbidden by the Jewish law: - meat, victuals.
1st Corinthians 3:3 jealousy:
zēlos
dzay'-los
Properly heat, that is, (figuratively) “zeal” (in a favorable sense, ardor; in an unfavorable one, jealousy, as of a husband [figuratively of God], or an enemy, malice): - emulation, envy (-ing), fervent mind, indignation, jealousy, zeal.
1st Corinthians 3:3 quarreling:
eris
er'-is
Of uncertain affinity; a quarrel, that is, (by implication) wrangling: - contention, debate, strife, variance.
1st Corinthians 3:18 wise:
sophos
sof-os'
Akin to σαφής saphēs (clear); wise (in a most general application): - wise. Compare to phronimos.
phronimos
fron'-ee-mos
thoughtful, that is, sagacious or discreet (implying a cautious character; while sof-os' denotes practical skill or acumen; and soon-et'-os indicates rather intelligence or mental acquirement); in a bad sense conceited (also in the comparative): - wise (-r).
Idle debate; is that what we all tend to special in? We bicker and argue over the littlest of things. Whether it is what is for dinner or what to watch on TV or this or that or the other… we can quarrel about something. I feel I am getting a bit better that this. Holding my tongue isn’t the easiest practice in the world. I mean, how easy is it to be told by someone you’re wrong? Politicians can’t stand it. Lawyers make a living out of proving to people that they are right and in fact not wrong even when they know they are in fact wrong. Scientists walk into a lab trying to prove a theory that in some cases that they think they cannot prove. It is all in the heat and glory of debate.
Anger (noun):
Today is Mackenzie’s 1st Birthday!
The Tongue – Edition #30: Quarreling Aside
(First some good chain mail that I verified is true from Snopes.com)
Some good advice, and you may know this already, but it is good to hear it again.
A 36 year old woman had an accident and totaled her car. A resident of Kilgore, Texas, she was traveling between Gladewater & Kilgore. It was raining, though not excessive, when her car suddenly began to hydroplane and literally flew through the air.
She was not seriously injured but very stunned at the sudden occurrence!
When she explained to the highway patrolman what had happened he told her something that every driver should know: NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON. She had thought she was being cautious by setting the cruise control and maintaining a safe consistent speed in the rain. But the highway patrolman told her that if the cruise control is on and your car begins to hydroplane - your tires loose contact with the pavement and car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed and take off like an airplane. She told the patrolman that was exactly what had occurred.
We all know you have little or no control over a car when it begins to hydroplane. You are at the mercy of the Good Lord. The highway patrol estimated her car was actually traveling through the air at 10 to 15 miles per hour faster than the speed set on the cruise control.
The patrolman said this warning should be listed, on the driver’s seat sun-visor: NEVER USE THE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE PAVEMENT IS WET OR ICY along with the airbag warning.
We tell our teenagers to set the cruise control and drive a safe speed but we don't tell them to use the cruise control only when the pavement is dry. The only person the accident victim found, who knew this (besides the patrolman), was a man who had had a similar accident, totaled his car and sustained severe injuries.
OK, that is it for the service announcement. I actually didn’t know that it was bad to not have the cruise on during rain. Oops. Of course, when it is pouring down rain, I don’t have it on anyway, but it is good to know. Now, the medical treatment that I am going through is doing me well. I have much more energy. I am able to walk and function a lot better and have less pain. I have done some research on what it is that I am going through. If you are interested in seeing the exact link, you can check it out at: http://quitetimes4me.blogspot.com/2006/05/multiple-sclerosis.html or go to webMD.com and check it out there yourself, should you choose.
1st Corinthians 3:1-23
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly - mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?
What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe - as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a “fool” so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”; and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future - all are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
1st Corinthians 3:1 worldly:
sarkikos
sar-kee-kos'
Pertaining to flesh, that is, (by extension) bodily, temporal, or (by implication) animal, unregenerate: - carnal, fleshly.
1st Corinthians 3:1 infants:
nēpios
nay'-pee-os
From an obsolete particle ne; implying negation; not speaking, that is, an infant (minor); figuratively a simple minded person, an immature Christian: - babe, child (+ -ish).
1st Corinthians 3:2 solid food:
brōma
bro'-mah
Food (literally or figuratively), especially (ceremonial) articles allowed or forbidden by the Jewish law: - meat, victuals.
1st Corinthians 3:3 jealousy:
zēlos
dzay'-los
Properly heat, that is, (figuratively) “zeal” (in a favorable sense, ardor; in an unfavorable one, jealousy, as of a husband [figuratively of God], or an enemy, malice): - emulation, envy (-ing), fervent mind, indignation, jealousy, zeal.
1st Corinthians 3:3 quarreling:
eris
er'-is
Of uncertain affinity; a quarrel, that is, (by implication) wrangling: - contention, debate, strife, variance.
1st Corinthians 3:18 wise:
sophos
sof-os'
Akin to σαφής saphēs (clear); wise (in a most general application): - wise. Compare to phronimos.
phronimos
fron'-ee-mos
thoughtful, that is, sagacious or discreet (implying a cautious character; while sof-os' denotes practical skill or acumen; and soon-et'-os indicates rather intelligence or mental acquirement); in a bad sense conceited (also in the comparative): - wise (-r).
Idle debate; is that what we all tend to special in? We bicker and argue over the littlest of things. Whether it is what is for dinner or what to watch on TV or this or that or the other… we can quarrel about something. I feel I am getting a bit better that this. Holding my tongue isn’t the easiest practice in the world. I mean, how easy is it to be told by someone you’re wrong? Politicians can’t stand it. Lawyers make a living out of proving to people that they are right and in fact not wrong even when they know they are in fact wrong. Scientists walk into a lab trying to prove a theory that in some cases that they think they cannot prove. It is all in the heat and glory of debate.
Anger (noun):
- A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility.
Debate (verb):
- To deliberate on; consider.
- To dispute or argue about.
- To discuss or argue (a question, for example) formally.
Malevolent (adj.):
- Having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; malicious.
- Having an evil or harmful influence.
Immature (adj.):
- Not fully grown or developed.
- Marked by or suggesting a lack of normal maturity.
Wise (adj.):
- Having or prompted by wisdom or discernment.
- Marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters.
- Evidencing the possession of inside information.
- Carefully considered.
1st Corinthians 8:1
We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Knowledge makes us proud. It fills us with pride. But love edifies. Love gives us morals and spiritual improvements. It gives me maturity. Love is constructive and confirming. Love is encouraging. And to be honest with you, I simply got all that from just this last scripture, in 1st Corinthians 8 verse 1, with the thanks of the e-Sword and the dictionary.com. Don’t use me as a second hand bible, but look in it yourself. Convictions are built first hand. I had to learn that on my own. Faith can be borrowed, but not stolen. I love you all, and hope to hear from you soon. Johnny Out.
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