Frogs In The Pond Spirituality?

Alright everyone…from time to time a strange event happens and I am reminded of a spiritual truth. This is your time to explain the unexplainable…a time to show your inner spiritual application of the abnormal.

I was just standing outside by my lake\pond behind my apartment just watching the stars, counting the many aircraft zooming ahead all while being drowned by the croaking of frogs. For those of you who have ever heard a pond full of frogs, you know how the crazy sound is. All of a sudden, like there was a cue from one frog…SILENCE! For about three seconds there was not a sound by the pond! Then it all started back up like it never stopped! What is the meaning of this? Has anyone ever heard of a pond of frogs just going silent all at once? Take a guess at what I was reminded of due to this strange happening.

The Fear Of Giants

I heard a quote from the writings of the Chinese Martyr, Watchman Nee yesterday…He stated that: “Giants will never destroy you…the fear of giants is what will destroy you!”

When I heard that quote I immediately felt like it was written for me alone. Sometimes I feel afraid to even face the problems in life and they end up destroying me anyways. Don’t be like the Israelites in the desert when they got to the promised land…they were afraid of the huge giants that occupied the land. You know the rest of the story after that.

I’m Sore

If you look at my very revealing picture to the right…you probably aren’t thinking…man, that guy is sexy! Well that picture was taken around Christmas time in ‘07 and I tipped the scales at 245 lbs. With Some inspiration from NBC’s The Biggest Loser show, watching American Gladiators, and secretly wishing I had the fierceness of Batista from WWE…I began working out and exercising regularly since January. I am now down to 213 lbs. as of Tuesday and my clothes are starting to fall off me. Maybe I’ll change that picture to a much leaner version of me…maybe I’ll keep it up for a while to motivate me even more…In the meantime, I am very sore from my new workout routines I’ve started upon joining a gym here in town instead of using the cheesy equipment our apartment complex has.

Life Is Meaningless! Or Is It?

For My 100th post here on my blog I begin a series from the book of Ecclesiastes. I decided to do this because last night during my normal Bible reading time, I was compelled to read through the whole book at one time! Ecclesiastes was the next book in my reading straight through the scriptures and even though I have read it before, studied it in classes, etc. it never has opened my eyes more than it did last night! As we notice the decline of Christianity in our society, evil overtaking our politics and schools, families being destroyed by sinful desires, and the economy declining due to bad decisions…the reasons why are in this book!

Ecclesiastes was written by “The Teacher” who is general considered to be Solomon, the son of David. When you look at his life, his decisions, his sins, you can know he has authority on speaking on making wise decisions and placing the priority of earthly materials in life. Here are a few verses that popped out at me and bit me like a snake last night.

Ecc. 1:18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. I can relate to this being in the ministry. It seems it is best not to know everything about everything! The more you know, the more responsibility you have to deal with issues…”the more grief” as Solomon said.

Ecc. 2:24 A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too I see is from the hand of God. I have often heard about people who once they retired from working after 50+ years have gone into depression and have died! They lost the one thing that kept them going and “satisfied” The key to having satisfaction after retirement is to not stop working for the Lord!

Hard To Get Along With Someone?

We all have that someone at work, school, church, family, etc. that we just have a hard time loving and getting along with! What do you do with them? Click Here for the answer! You may not like it.