Start Your Day Off Right Series 1/29

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Here is some food for your Daily Bread!

1/29–Start Your Day Off Right Series

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Illustration: Do you like blackberries? Aren’t they wonderful when mixed with ice cream? So sweet and delightful.

What does it take to gather blackberries? Well you have to crawl through the vines which are covered with prickly thorns. These thorns will scratch your skin if you’re not very careful.

What can you do? Well one good idea is to protect yourself with heavy clothing. Another is to be extremely cautious when walking through the vines.

How can that help us in the congregation?

Well if we have the right attitude toward our brothers, that can be compared with the protective clothing. Being thoughtful and considerate can be compared with the cautious moving through the vines.

Remembering that our brothers intentions are good and they’re trying to work out their own salvation too, we won’t be scratched.

What do you do if you are scratched? In the case of actual blackberries, you don’t take the thorn and keep jabbing it into your skin over and over do you. Neither do you flee from the patch. You want those berries.

So, too, with our brothers and sisters. We love their wonderful qualities and want to be near them. So when we do get scratched (or scratch others), apply the soothing ointment of love over those wounds.

Scripture:

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Humor: It reminds me of the man who was sizing up God by ask”“asking, “God, how long is a million years to you?” God said, “A million years is like a second.” Then the man asked, “How much is a million dollars to you?” God said, “A million dollars is like a penny.” The man smiled and said, “Could you spare a penny?” God smiled back and said, “Sure, just wait a second.”