Insightful Musings on the Scriptures

by

Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67

Good morning, dear ones.

It’s another cold one out there…in the 20s. Only this morning did it occur to me that I had forgotten to crack open the outside water taps. Hope we don’t develop a burst somewhere.

Not sure yet if we’ll do a walk/jog. I need to carry on with that tree job. And a guy is coming at 9:30am to have a few small logs resawn. (Spell-checker doesn’t know everything. “Resawn” is a real word.)

OK…let me state again that I have no wish to be overloading email INBOXes where time and interest are limited. So it’s overdue to launch a plan to update the recipient list. Let me suggest a deadline of January 15 to receive from you an interest to remain on the recipient list. Without hearing back from you, I will assume that you would prefer not being on the list.

Blessings as your day flies by…as you honor life’s only source and supply.

Love, Dad/Ray

God knows how you and I are wired—the consequence of our universal sin nature. It’s an inherited syndrome—or SIN-drome. As confirmation that this affliction reveals itself early in life, all I need do is observe my grandchildren interacting with each other.

For reasons I cannot specifically identify, Noah chose to resist and modify the natural programming of his own dirty heart—and nurtured A HEART AFTER GOD. As a result, the LORD gave Noah the highest possible commendation—“I have found you righteous in this generation” (7:1).

Be assured that the LORD wants to give you the same marks. In final judgment His favorite verdict will be, “Well done, good and faithful servant!...Come and share your master's happiness!” (Matthew 25:21).

Noah was not normal. In the same way, please do not allow yourself to be normal.