Christian Family Services Ministry

12-21-2022 – A Word to the Wise – I have spoken in the past of the wisdom of my mother. How I would lay in the hall and listen as she talked with others giving guidance and understanding. I wish to share with you some of those insights. I have in my possession a little journal that is divided up into a variety of topics; love, loyalty, prayer, worship, ect and that is what I am quoting from. To be honest some of this is still far beyond me, and yet so simple.

On Happiness:

Happiness without gratitude is as remote as an earth without the sun. Can’t you just imagine the horror if suddenly we had to grope about in a continual darkness, and yet we marvel because our spirits grope for the sunshine it needs to spread happiness abroad in our hearts. When we refuse to be grateful, we refuse the light of happiness. Happiness is in belonging not getting.

On Respect:

A child’s capacity to respect is developed by a careful and consistent guidance in his senses of values. In other words, respect is a process of growth. We do not demand respect in a child. We guide him in his development of it.

On Obedience:

Obedience follows acceptance of authority. It cannot precede it. If ones’ acceptance of authority is not right, neither can the quality of his obedience be right. When God has become king to you, then and only then can you offer an acceptable quality of obedience. Noticed the prophets who obeyed God. God was first their king, their Lord. I am afraid we have deified this word to such an extent their basic meaning escapes us. We have forgotten our fear of God.

Hebrew 5:8 I think these words are taken often to mean Christ had to learn to obey as we do, but this is not so. Christ was without sin; therefore, he was obedient. What Christ learned was to understand human suffering to be experienced in obedience, thus he is able to succor us.

On Trust:

Trust is the emotional part of love. The emotions must be understood in order to trust. A sense of security is an emotional state—therefore it must come out of trust.

On Rejection:

What matters if you feel rejected in this world or not. You are not here to be received by the world neither to accept it.

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