Voice of the Introverts

When my children were growing up I used to read them a story about a badger and his wife. The badger, according to his wife, could do nothing right. She yelled at him constantly. He could do nothing right. No matter where he went, she followed after him yelling and nagging. Finally, the only way he got any peace was to climb up on the roof and go to sleep under the stars. The moral of the story was Proverbs 25:24

“It is better to dwell in the corner of a housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.”

It is near the end of the Year 2021. It has been almost a century since our country went through what is known as the “Great Depression”. The Depression sent most of the country into such poverty that finally the government tried to ease the situation off some an create the welfare program. The welfare program was supposed to get the populace over and out of the depression. The trouble that ensued was the government created a part of our society that was completely dependent on the government for pretty much all of their living – the welfare society.

I don’t know about you, but I have a tendency to open my mouth and put my foot into it. In other words, I speak before I think. More often than not I regret it the moment it comes out of my mouth. One of the frustrating things about this is there seems to be no limit to how many times it can happen. I am dumbfounded as to why I can’t slap a whole horse into my mouth. (You know, how we say we are hungry enough to eat a horse, it’s is a miracle that I cannot actually do it!)

Have you noticed that sometimes you make big elaborate plans and they do not always work out? You will plan a vacation for a year and have all these great things you want to do on your trip, but someone gets sick or hurt, or your job says there is a big job and they cannot have you go on this week after all. All those plans, right down the drain!

This is a serious article for a serious time. If you read your Bible you know that pretty much all prophecy has been fulfilled regarding the end times. We are getting close to the rapture of the church, when Christ will call the church to come with Him to our eternal home. 

I did this a few weeks ago, but I believe it is warranted, from time to time, to remind people that God’s Word, just like God himself, is eternal. Everything He says in His Word is always true, whether we agree with it, or whether we like it or not. It is good to go and put yourself in the place of any of the old prophets, or the apostles – when God says something to any of them, he is also saying it to you or to the Church. The Word is eternal – it keeps speaking to all generations. 

I read an article recently that said, Americans on average move every three years. We change jobs almost as frequently and probably our spouses more frequently than that. We are not content with our jobs, our homes, our spouses, our looks, our phones, our games. We are constantly changing everything. In fact, society today has become so restless that we are not even satisfied with the sex we were prescribed at conception.

Seed to conception.

Conception to gestation.

Gestation to birth.

Birth to infancy.

Infancy to childhood.

Childhood to adolescence.

Adolescence to adulthood.

Adulthood to senior.

Senior to death.

Death to eternity.

Some will accuse me of plagiarism, that is perfectly OK. Sometimes I get the urge to do this. When the Bible was given to those apostles and disciples that were given the Word by the Holy Spirit – those Words were penned for the entire Church then, and the entire Church for all eternity. When you read this open letter to the church, what you do is put your name in place of anyone else’ name that is written. It was also meant for you. This letter is not for the unsaved, although if the unsaved were to read it, and the Holy Spirit were to show them their future fate – that would be a good thing. As I write this, and you are a member of a church, please step back a bit and do some thinking: “Is my church actually part of the true Church, or is it part of the congregation that Christ will say, “Depart from me, for I never knew you.”?”

“And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.”

“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”