Tuesday, September 3, 2019

BEWARE THE SQUEAKY WHEEL SYNDROME


BEWARE SQUEAKY WHEELS DISORDER
Tuesday, September 03, 2019

1Thessalonians [GW] 5:16 Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Whatever happens, give thanks, because it is God's will in Christ Jesus that you do this. Don't put out the Spirit's fire. Don't despise what God has revealed. Instead, test everything. Hold on to what is good. Keep away from every kind of evil. May the God who gives peace make you holy in every way. May he keep your whole being-spirit, soul, and body-blameless when our Lord Jesus Christ comes. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do this.

Holiness involves joyfully doing the will of God.  Reverend Mundel

  I’ve observed or read of the condition in families, neighborhoods, small businesses, large companies, schools, civic organizations, military units, politics, and church congregations, et al. It is not a harmless disorder, it is a snare that impedes and even prohibits attainment of wholeness; in a congregation, holiness pleasing to the Lord.
  Ours was not a church family, neglectfully so on Mother’s part, deliberately so on Father’s. Though the Bible was seldom referenced or quoted, we were definitely taught the morals and ethics therein. This I realized after trusting Jesus as Redeemer at age 27. Our childhood also included Aesop’s, Ben Franklin’s, and other often repeated adage. One of the earliest that “I got a handle on.” was “The squeaky wheel too often gets the grease.” Later in aging I understood its companion axiom “There’s only so much grease to go around.”
  It is very easy to focus emotionally, intellectually, physically energetically on the squeaky wheel(s) at the expense of the whole wagon load, the wagon train, the workhorses that pull it, the fields of oats needed to feed them, and other things pertaining to maintaining and furthering wholeness.
EBB4

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