Saturday Night Musings

The father (James Mammone) is charged for murdering his two children by slashing their throats and shooting to death his mother-in-law several times during a weekend visitation in order to punish his wife smiled in court as the judge set a 15 million bond. Canton, Ohio, June 10, 2009
I know of no title that references Our Father which art in heaven as the one father. The father exemplifies our God in relationships, leadership, training, nurturing, compassion, understanding, love, patience, grace, and forgiveness like no other. When children see Dad, they should see him in the image of God from whom he was created.
What did the wisest man in the entire world say about Fathers? The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. Proverbs 10:1
A wise son is the product of a father who has given quality time in child-rearing. When that child becomes righteous in behavior, it doesn’t get better than this for a Dad. (Proverbs 23:24, III John 4). Fathers must have the mind of Christ lest they provoke their children unto wrath and produce a generation that will curse him and not bless their mother. A wise son follows the perfect will of God as he sees the will of God in his father’s life. Jesus, the Son of God said, I do those things which I see my Father doing. A wise son will make a glad father because of the wisdom of his father.
A father is a teacher. Father’s should seek a place on their knees everyday calling out the names of his children in prayer. Satan is always seeking whom he may devour. Worthless men of Belial lay silently ready to seize and ambush our children and drag them into sin. They will spread a net for our kids and lead them to an early grave. Dad, teach your children the ways of God and the way of the straight and narrow path.
A father is a trainer. One who trains his children not in the way he wants them to go, or the way the children want to go, but the way that children should go. As the child grows older every day, he will not depart from Dad’s training. Train them to follow you as you follow Christ. Train them to live holy lives. Love them unconditionally as your Heavenly Father loves you. Disciplined them when necessary and always be ready to forgive them quickly. Train them for heaven. Lead them to a saving knowledge of Christ early in life. Tell them of a loving and forgiving Savior. Lead them in prayer to confess their sin. Train them to be servants serving their Father for the rest of their lives. And don’t ever give up them.
It seems to me it would be better for a child-offender first to get saved and then a mill stone be hanged around his neck and be cast into the sea than to offend a child.
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Let me see if I understand this—the United States Government now controls General Motors. Right? And, I’m I correct that former AT&T Inc. Chairman and CEO Edward E. Whitacre Jr. is headed to General Motors Corp. to serve as the company’s new chairman? And did I hear him say, that he knew nothing about cars?

What did the wisest man in the entire world say about things not good? Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity. Proverbs 17:26

It is not good for politicians to punish hard working folks to the third and fourth generation with a tax bill they did not read or understand. It is equally not good that people be destroyed for lack knowledge. Proverbs 19:2

It is not good to elect leaders who refuse to lead in prayer, enter into a dialogue with enemies who want to destroy us and make statements that we are no longer a Christian nation but a nation of citizens. When we do, God will give us our request, but will send leanness to our soul. What sense does this make? Proverbs 18:5

It is not good for the blind to lead the blind. What can we expect to happen when we listen to worthless people who spew out garbage on a national TV show telling obscene jokes about the kids of our leaders? (That person should be fired.) What can we expect to happen when we listen to propaganda against our friends or follow a vicious person down a dead end street? Is there any rhyme or reason to this madness? Proverbs 16:27-29

It is not good to cheat people. God knows cheaters and cheaters never win in the end. It is God who at the end of the day will take from him who hath and restore to him that hath not. We may have blind justice now; however the scales will be balanced one day. Proverbs 20:23; 24:23

It is not good to like your self a lot. Remember the ladder you climbed up and over your friends trying to reach the top; you will meet them as you come back down. What goes around will come around. Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to have respect of persons. We have all sinned and come short of God’s glory. It will take the same measure of grace to save the good and the bad. God love all people the same. If you come believing, he will do the saving. Proverbs 28:21

It seems to me common sense 101 is the right thing but stupidity is bad for everyone.
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Facebook—a new network of keeping tract of your new friends and finding some of your old friends. More than 200 million have logged on. With your Facebook, you can send messages, place your “old” picture on your facebook, invite new friends to your facebook, find old friends, and send out happenings about your life to all of your friends. They then will share your news with all their friends. Some news you might not want the world to know! Go ahead, I double-dog dare you to facebook me!

What did the wisest man in all the world say about friends? A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Someone has said the number of friends we have can be counted on one hand. We have friends who are friends only for what they get out of us. When the loaves and fishes stop, they no longer will walk with you. Some friends are here today and gone tomorrow. What kind of friend we are will most likely be the kind of friends we will have.

A true friend will break you in pieces and will be there to help put it all back together. A true friend will be transparently clear, not fearing or favoring how we will respond. They will love us enough to expose what they see in our lives no matter what. They will walk into our lives when the world walks out and stay there for the long haul. They will love us at all times, in season out of season, during good times and bad times. As iron sharpens iron, so will be character of a friend. He will show himself friendly to you.

A true friend is a lover who is closer than a brother. A true friend is a rare find and one that will be precious to us as long as we live. One whom we can share your most intimate thoughts with confidence. They will go where we go and lodge where we lodge. Our God will be their God, and where we die they will die. When the world hangs you on a cross, they will be there. Our souls will be knit together in purpose and presence. There will be a bond which only death can separate. Blood is thicker than water. The blood that binds us is the blood of Christ. That bond is closer than a brother.

The true friend that is closer to us than a brother is the Lord Jesus Christ. We can trust him by confessing our sin to him and knowing he will forgive us. He will come into our life, take up his residence in us, and give us the Holy Spirit to bring to our mind all the things he has told us. He loves us so much that he is building a mansion just for us and desires to live through out all eternity with us. He has not called us servants, but friends. He will never forsake us or fail us. How about that for a friend?

It seems to me if you want a true friend, that friend will be found in the family of God.

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