dar334

It feels like I’ve been in slow motion these past few days and the direction I’m traveling is down.  I can’t say it’s a spiral, it’s more like a slope, but the direction, for sure, is south.  I can’t lay my hand on one particular thing that has caused me to slip, it seems to be an accumulation of many things.  Kinda like straw being heaped on a camel’s back, and we all know how that ended.

I haven’t found anything recently that caused me to take the time to ponder.  I miss that.  I need that.  These past couple days I’ve been trying to stay alert in case the Holy Spirit is quietly leading me in a certain direction.   I’ve learned enough to know in order to hear you have to enter silence.  I wish the Holy Spirit had a smart phone so He could text me my instructions, I seem to be able to hear those quite clearly.

Through this website I’ve started following a young pastor.  He calls himself the “The Comeback Pastor” and I feel like his blogs are 100% Bible based.  (Wow.  THAT just opened a can of worms)  Bible based is what the church should be.  I feel like today’s clergy must feel like Moses did when he struck the rock to give the whining and complaining Israelites some water.  He was angry because the people just …. wouldn’t …. listen.  Because of his disobedience he didn’t get to enter the Promised Land.  That whole ordeal is a ponder for another time though.

This morning when I checked my email I found a new post by The Comeback Pastor.   He was writing about taking the time now to pay tribute to people while they are alive, and the part that stopped me short was this:  “If you take the time, you just might save their life.”  

I honestly don’t know how today’s “Bible Based Pastors” can refrain from taking their staff and striking the rocks some people have for heads.  Those rocks that feel they need to satisfy the secular world.  While pondering that, I came up with the part in our Instruction Book that tells us we will face persecution, but we are to continue on anyways.  Our reward WILL come.

I have stopped myself several times from posting or speaking something that struck me from the Word, although that is not what our Instructions are.  Mark 16:15 says “And He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature'”  This morning The Comeback Pastor reminded me that if I take the time, I just might save a life.

Ponder that,

-dar