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My Two Cents
by Rev Chuck Behrens
January, 2012
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Oh, it happens every year
after Thanksgiving and Christmas and yes, New Years.... leftovers. I
cannot believe the infinite possibilities for preparing turkey. You know
ow it goes; You have turkey crispies for breakfast and turkey, butter and
jelly sandwiches for lunch, etc. I mean, listen, there are so many ways to
get rid of that turkey! Actually, any time of the year, it's just hard to
get a lot of enthusiasm for dinner when it's leftovers. It's just not fair
how many times you and I serve just that to our family. They deserve much
better.
I'm not talking about food here. I'm talking about leftover me, leftover
you. Psalm 101:2-3 has something to do with something better than
leftovers. Here's what is says. David is speaking. He says, "I will be
careful to lead a blameless life." Now, before we go on to the next verse,
let's think about that word blameless for a minute. What does he mean?
What's a blameless life?
Well, it means living your life in such a way that you have nothing to
regret. Isn't that nice to wake up in the morning with no extra baggage,
no emotional hangover, nothing to regret nothing to repair, and nothing to
hide? That's a blameless life.
Okay, now listen to the next verse, "I will walk in my house with a
blameless heart." Actually, these verses in this Psalm give us several
arenas in life. After he says, "I'm going to be careful to be blameless"
he gives us several arenas in which he wants to do that. But the number
one is my family. He says, "When I'm with them, I want them to get
blameless living from me. They will get not my leftovers. They are going
to get my emotional and spiritual best." Is that how it is with your
family and you?
I'll tell you, it often is not the case, is it? Our friends get much
better treatment sometimes than our family does. In fact, if we treated
our friends as we treat our family, our friends wouldn't stand for it.
We'd be out of friends pretty quick. But our friends shouldn't be getting
our gest. Our family should get that.
David says, "You start in your house with blameless living." Sometimes we
save our best for the kids at school,, or the people at work, people at
church. Oh, they see a wonderful person that the people at home so seldom
see We use up all our patience, all our listening, all our love, our
helpfulness, and our unselfishness some place else. And guess what we dish
out to our family when we get home? Yep! Leftovers! That's wrong!
Here's the way it ought to be. Everyone should just be getting the
overflow of the respect, love and patience that you're practicing at home.
And David says, "I will be careful to lead a blameless life."
See, there's a tendency to let down on living so we won't have regrets and
won't have anything to fix, or repair, or hide. It's easy to let down at
home. That's why we have to be careful to lead a blameless life. When we
get home, we let down, we're careless because we think no one's watching.
but the biblical priority is put on how you live at home.
Like David, let's make it a commitment - give your family your best, your
very best. You've served them enough leftovers.
Now that's not a New Year resolution... it's a NEW commitment... one we
all need to make!
See you in Church,
Rev Chuck
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