BEWARE SQUEAKY WHEELS DISORDER
Wednesday, November 02, 2016
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. 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. Our childhood also included Aesop’s, 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 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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