Text For Sunday, April 01, 2007

[James]

<div align="center">Text for Sunday, April 01, 2007



Sunday, April 1

No man that has put his hand to a plow and looks at the things behind is well fitted for the kingdom of God.—Luke 9:62.

One scribe declared that he would follow Jesus wherever He went. But Jesus pointed out that on many occasions, he did not even have a place to spend the night. When Jesus invited another listener to be his follower, this man replied that he would first need to “bury” his father. Likely, he preferred to stay at home and wait until his father died rather than follow Jesus and care for that family responsibility when it came. Finally, a third said that before following Jesus, he needed to “say good-bye” to his household. Jesus described such procrastination as ‘looking at the things behind.’ Thus, it appears that those who wish to do so will always be able to find excuses for evading their Christian responsibility.—Luke 9:57-61. w 4/1/06 13a



Procrastination- one of my greatest weaknesses :Yahoo_51:

James


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[Jinnvisible]

It is the Watchtower comment and not the scriptures that characterise this as procrastination, The men in the scriptures appear to have decided that they already did want to go along with Christ. So they were not deliberating over that, therefore correct term would be plow-crastination ;+)</span>

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[eyes&ears]

Now that would cause some real problems trying to plow while looking backwards.

The evil one just loves that. Here we are plowing through this disgusting evil world, trying very hard to keep our EYES ON THE PRIZE and doing all that we promised Jehovah we would do and Satan wants us to remember the "GOOD OLE DAYS" or the so called "EASY LIFE"

Perhaps how things may not have been as hectic before becoming a Christian, depending on your circumstances.


So every once in awhile he will throw some old nonsense from our mental file cabinets at us that we thought we put in the TRASH BIN. NO, WE PUT IT IN RECYCLE AND THAT IS WHAT IT DOES, IT RECYCLES ITSELF AT A VERY INCONVENIENT (VULNERABLE) TIME. (HMMMM)

BUT convenient for The evil one him because he starts whispering evil bitter/sweet nothings to us.

You know when you are sad, depressed, down in the dumps so to speak. Here he comes knowing exactly how you are feeling, and you start thinking hmmmm, then that little voice inside you says:

"Hey E & E do you really have to preach about God&#39;s Kingdom, don&#39;t worry about it, it will get done. Go on to the mall, you can talk to some interested people tomorrow. Go enjoy yourself. Take a load off and take care of yourself first."

And we think, yeah, I have been studying too hard, working too hard. I need to rest a bit. You then start having those THOUGHTS THAT YOU BELIEVED YOU PUT IN THE TRASHBIN.

I say, put a halt on it right then. It is true, we can find all kinds of excuses to not do what it is we are supposed to be doing.

We must keep HOLDING ON and remember to following the footsteps of Jehovahs&#39;s Son who gave his life for us to keep living and to have the wonderful, beautiful relationship we have with our Father, Jehovah.

May we never take lightly what has been given to us from Jehovah by means of his Son.

The last thing we want to do now is get CAUGHT UP in the traps that the evil one sets for us by blurring our spiritual focus and we start making excuses for not respecting all that Jehovah has done for us by becoming distracted and not loving JEHOVAH WITH OUR WHOLE BEING AS HE WANTS US TO.

May we keep our spiritual focus by living in the here and now, (LOOKING STRAIGHT AHEAD) and also remembering what Jehovah has promised us in our future if we are faithful and endure to the end.

SO KEEP HOLD N ON AND DO NOT LET GO, OKEY DO KEY.

John 17:3

Love to you all

E & E