LET’S BLAME BEN
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the
beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Proverbs 1:7; 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the
beginning of knowledge: but fools
despise wisdom and instruction. … The
fear of the LORD is the instruction of
wisdom; and before honour is humility.
The time of
blameshifting began with Adam soon followed by Eve. (Gen.3:12-13) Apart from
God’s wisdom, His Word, mankind continues to improvise at denying
responsibility.
The years around
1918 were difficult. There were factual reasons but as the maddening mob apart
from God prefers, they looked for simple reasons to blame their problems
on. This morning I read of one of the
goofiest.
The National
Mothers’ Organization to Repeal the Daylight Law explained: “Supper is now
being served earlier, by bedtime the family is again hungry and they go to the
kitchen and eat the food which would be served for lunch the next day … thereby
increasing the grocery bill 10 to 15 percent.”
HAH! Anyone with
an ounce of brains knows it is Ben Franklin’s fault, he during our early USA
history suggesting “… a form of
daylight time in 1784. He wrote an essay "An Economical Project for
Diminishing the Cost of Light" to the editor of The Journal of Paris, suggesting, somewhat
jokingly, that Parisians could economize candle usage by
getting people out of bed earlier in the morning, making use of the natural
morning light instead.” (Source: Wikipedia.org)
We read the above
and snicker at their ignorance and smile at our latter day intelligence.
But wait, what of
screwball ideas on causation in our lifetime. If candid we see a reflection of
in our own mirror.
On second thought
let us not blame Ben, or God, or Satan, or Adam and Eve, our parents, or ……..
Instead let us
daily read and be reminded of the truth about all of us; we all sin and come
short of Omniscient God as the standard for all eternity. (Rom.3:23-26)
EBB4
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