“It was the decent thing to do”

The mother who turned in her two grown up sons, for a violent attack on another man,  that left him blind in one eye and needing constructive surgery deserves huge respect I think.  Her sons are in prison, starting a two year jail sentence. They had gotten away with the crime, until their mother heard them boasting of the attack. And without any hesitation she turned them into the police.  Her sons now in prison are saying it is her fault they are there, (not the fact that they attacked someone and left him blind in one eye! Duh!)  The rest of the family are not speaking to her, and she is banned from seeing her grandchildren.  Watching her interviewed on TV, she was adamant that it was the “right, and decent” thing to do, and that she would “do the same again.”  That she loved her sons, but  she was disgusted and ashamed of what they had done. Yet she was very timid, you could see the toll of the cost of her doing the “decent” thing by her worn expression and timidity.  Many people may condemn her, many people like myself thing she deserves a round of applause and respect for showing the courage to do as she did, at the cost to herself and her family.

And when you see the way the Gospel is compromised, because people will  not take stands, will not stand firm. Will keep company with people who are quite  dangerous and enemies of the gospel,  rather than lose the “friendship” they prefer over the truth,  whatever the beliefs of world view of this woman are, it puts many of us to shame. Who are not willing to pay even a minor cost very often, for the sake of Truth and the Gospel, yet this mother,  paid the cost, and may pay it for the rest of her life, but she did it because it was “the right thing to do.”

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Always the last to know…

    Of course, it is my experience, that the real nuts, are never INSIDE the nut house, But walking around society, sitting in pubs, coffee houses, laughing and crying at the same things you and I do. It’s scary how normal real nuts usually appear!

The numbering of our days

Improve Time in time, while the Time doth last,
For all Time is no time, when the Time is past. [Richard Pigot]

Pet Peeves

These are only my most current, if I was to make a complete list, the www would not be large enough to hold it!

• 1. How if you buy something that has a label attached to it as “disability equipment”  yet its often things others use or have done, just the same,  the “disability equipment” label on it though, doubles or often trebles the price
• 2. The same for things we may buy for our pets.  I give my cat aloe vera juice. It’s the same as we would use from a regular health shop.  However if I was to go to a pet shop and it had the label of “vetinary” or “pet product” yet was exactly the same as the human form I buy, the price would be significantly higher!

The thing with pets, its  often knowing what’s okay to give to them, that we may use for ourselves.  But it’s often worth the effort of finding out, as you could save yourself a fortune in some things!

The believers infirmity

It is the infirmity of a believer to be thinking of himself, and drawing false inferences (for all such inferences are necessarily erroneous), from what he sees or feels, as to the light in which he is beheld and estimated on the part of God. It is his strength, on the other hand, to remember the right hand of the Most High — to meditate upon the changeless truth and mercy of that God who has committed himself in holiness to the believing sinner’s sure salvation, by causing the Son of his love to suffer in our stead the dread reality of penal death. [Arthur Pridham.]

diligently searching our hearts

Thus duty requires diligence. External acts of religion are facile; to lift up the eye to heaven, to bow the knee, to read a prayer, this requires no more labour than for a papist to tell over his beads; but to examine a man’s self, to take the heart all in pieces as a watch, and see what is defective, this is not easy. Reflective acts are hardest. The eye can see everything but itself. It is easy to spy the faults of others, but hard to find out our own. Thomas Watson.

The Prisoner

Though not a human voice he hears,
And not a human form appears
His solitude to share,
He is not all alone–the eye
Of him who hears the prisoners sigh
Is even on him there. J.L. Chester.

Out of the depths

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Are we ready, poppy?

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Men of unclean lips

Isaaih the Prophet said, “I am a man of unclean lips.”  Yet how many of us, think that about ourselves as we see the weaknesses, sins and human infirmities of others?  How many of us are sure that we would never fall prone to such and such a particular sin?  How many of us look down on  someone who may know of or read about who has done that particular sin we believe we never would do?  Instead of thinking like Isaaiah the prophet, “I am a man of unclean lips”? That he was no  more above or beyond reproach then any of  his people.  Sometimes  in my struggles along the way with this affliction, I have struggled more than other people.  It’s quite easy to feel pleased with ourselves and think we are doing well in the way of faith, when  our afflictions are either of the normal regularl kind,  or really  no different or bigger to most unbelievers.  No one will ever really know, unless they are pressed beyond limits what lies inside their hearts in reality.  What unbelief, or sin or bitterness or a hundred and one other things, unless pressed way beyond most normal means.   Yes, I h ave struggled more than most, though I don’t think that is true much any longer, I see others in otehr aweful afflictions, and see them struggling not that dissimiarly.  Yet, I am a man of unclean lips too. And so is every person who reads this blog post and beyond.  I think it might serve us well to remember that, when we see teh weaknesses and infirmities of others,   just like Isa, the prophet did.