The Secret Is Out

My selfish self was flabbergasted when I heard the words from the pulpit. Now, everybody is going to know the best kept secret of all times.  The most colossal “Get Rich Quick” scheme ever…and they just blabbed it out in public. I can’t believe it…I had so hoped I was the only one who knew.

2 Corinthians 9:6-11

 “Brothers and sisters, consider this:

…..whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

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for God loves a cheerful giver.

Moreover, God is able to make every grace abundant for you,

so that in all things, always having all you need,

you may have an abundance for every good work.”… 

“You are being enriched in every way …..”.

What I Want To Do I Do Not Do

I laboriously hauled myself onto the digital bathrooms scales after a lengthy weekend vacation of eating and napping only to see the LED readout flash the message “HEART ATTACK” in brilliant caution-orange.  With the taste of pork ribs, beef sirloin and grilled salmon still on my lips I vowed never to eat again. 

This calls for serious action…so I aired the tires on my neglected bicycle and paddled off into the morning twilight. In the humid seventy-seven degree air it did not take long for the heavy breathing to start followed by a clammy sweat.  It was as if that homemade coconut cream pie oozed from every pore.     

“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.”  Romans 7:15