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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