Good afternoon and Marvelous Monday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. As we come into the final week of the month of Visually Impaired in August based on Job 29:11-16, Mark 8:22-25 and also Revelation 3:14-19 I want to go back to a time in my life when my heart was broken. See back in the day I was in love with one of the most beautiful young ladies in the world ( at least to me ). And when my behavior got me shipped away to school far away from my house my relationship with this young lady went from being all that to nothing at all. I can still remember getting a letter from her telling me that since I was so far away that she had found some one else to occupy her time. I was devastated and could not imagine life without her. I did not come out of my room and just sat there for hours until my roommate came home and asked me, Why Did Are You Sitting in the Dark.
As I have grown much older things affect me sometimes that makes me want to just be alone and not be bothered. On the nightly news there are people getting shot everyday. Teens are still having children at a age
where it makes life difficult for them. And there are things such as the division of churches that makes me want to be by alone. But God wants action from me and asks Why Am I sitting in the Dark?
In the first example of Why Are You Sitting in the Dark in the Word of God I go to 1st Samuel 3:1-2. In this passage it tells of how there was little revelation at this time and how the man of God, Eli was in a place
where darkness was to begin to set upon him as he went to sleep. Many people of faith including myself are closing to the violence in our cities, country, world and wonder why is nothing happening. God is looking for us and asking Why Are We Sitting in the Dark?
In the second example in the Word of God I go to 1st Kings 19:8-9. After Elijah showed the people the strength of God ( 1st Kings the 18th chapter) he ran away to save himself from the wrath of Jezebel. There
no reason for him to not trust God to make things better. More and more young people are trusting that a baby will make their life better and we as a people of God are not educating them. Why Are You Sitting in the Dark?
In the last example in the Word of God of Why Are You Sitting in the Dark I go to Matthew 6:22-23. In these verses Jesus tells us all that our sight is our guide and that a bad eye will see nothing but darkness. In
the body of Christ today there are too many eyes that are doing things in the darkness like tearing another congregation down with lied and innuendo instead of spreading the gospel. Why Are You Sitting in the Dark?
In closing there is plenty of work to be done in the world today. The way to prevent violence at times is to talk to the youth and give them your story about how you made it out of the world. I can see them sitting in the dark just before they kill someone and after they have been arrested. Young ladies can look at the example of that lady that may not be in her household but took time to tell them that God truly loves them and to have self worth in themselves. And I have said it over and over again when there is no unity in the body of Christ there is division and I have not read nowhere in the Word of God Jesus taught to be enemies with one another. Why Are We Sitting in the Dark? I give God all the glory and honor for this teaching and ask him to bless though who may read this and those who may not as well. Please join me Thursday for my teaching called Lukewarm Eyesight that will be coming from Revelation 3:14-19, the last base scripture. Have a great week.
Good morning and Happy Monday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. This past month I was riding with my friend Angela Francis. On this particular day she had to go get her hair done and her friend Roxanne' shop. I had done this numerous times in the past so when I was getting ready to leave I told Angela I was going to the forest preserve to sit and wait as she got her hair done. At the forest preserve I would be able to do two things while I was there. I would be able to think of ideas for my blog, my radio show and my daily postings on Facebook. When you attempt to write you sometimes get writer's block and need to get to a different atmosphere ( Hmmm Writer's Block may be a blog soon LOL ). The other reason I wanted to go to the forest preserve is because it was hot that day and I needed some shade. So as I approached the forest preserve I put on my left turn signal and waited for traffic coming southbound to clear. After
Good morning and Happy Monday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. Growing up we used to love to take pictures. Maybe not myself because I had a self confidence problem, but everywhere you went there was someone taking pictures. In grammar school we took pictures every week. In high school we took them every year. At church we took pictures. In the club we took pictures as a group to show we all went to a party. Most of the pictures we took were with a Polaroid camera which had great quality then. But if you wanted the best pictures you wanted the photographer to take your pictures. This was one of the coolest professions back then because all the ladies who wanted to be models or actresses had to go to the photographer to get that photo to take to the different agencies to show how they look. So in order to get the best quality the photographer had to go someplace where he could get the best results. It was his Dark Room. This is the na
Good morning and Happy Friday. The summer is now beginning and the weather is now reaching its highest temperatures. It has reached a high point of 90's so far in the Chicagoland area and it appears to be nothing in sight to relieve us of these conditions that are almost drought like. As the summer gets ready to start in earnest next week we anticipate the warmest temps of the year after a winter that saw a little snow but the hawk, ( that's what we call the wind in the CHI ) was in full effect. But the sun has been out daily and we need a little moisture in our lives. We expect things to get wet in order for us to not only cool off but to wash away some things and bring a freshness of new things in our lives. The hotness of the weather coincides with the hotness in our lives. We need things to cool off a little bit but need some things to come down so we can enjoy the things in our lives that is promised to us as Christians. We are faithful and trusting in his Word. So as we
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