Grace Awakening

Sometimes He Calms the Storm

Consider this for a moment, in a moment of pride, King David defied the will of God and took a census of Israel.  God’s Word says that David’s heart was troubled and then he confessed his sin to God.  God then told David what his options were.  In the end, 70,000 died for David’s sin.  Can you imagine the weight on David’s heart?  His sin cost 70,000 lives!  I think if David would have accepted Araunah’s offer to supply the necessary items for David’s sacrifice, it would have been utterly and completely rejected.

I was planning to write something else today; however, my thoughts were directed in this avenue today.  Men, if I have offended you with the comment of “milk toast, muffin eating, tea toddling mouse of a man” – then good.  If you want to reach through the screen and throttle the nut case who wrote those words, great.  But before you attempt all that, let me say something (I understand that you are not required to read past this point and read my opinion).

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“Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,’ and you do not know that you hare wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.”

Revelation 3:17 

Hans Christian Anderson tells the tale of an emperor who lived for new clothes.  He unwittingly hired two swindlers to make him a fantastic suit of clothes worthy of the emperor.  It was to be a magical suit that was invisible to a man unworthy of his office but displayed in splendor and beauty on those of great worth.  This, of course, appealed to the emperor’s pride.  When the day came that the emperor’s new clothes were ready, he “put” them on and paraded through the city streets in the new “clothes.”  All the people marveled at the new clothes until a wise child cried out, “But he has nothing on at all.”  (More)

Year after year the sphagnum moss encroaches on the once pristine lake.  Where once clear water ran, now only clouded brown water remains.  Where fish once jumped and swam, now only lifelessness remains.  Time marches on for the bog.  Each year leaves less of the lake and more of the bog.  Each year sees a smaller circle of water remain.  Though it is slow, the bog moss and the peat claim the lake.

Proverbs 3:23