TEACH THE MEN

“Teach the older men to be  . . self-controlled . .  Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.”   TITUS 2:2,6 NIV

      Men wrestle with anger, sometimes because we are control freaks and other times because we are men.  Men, leaders, are supposed to be right, yet we are not always right, just most of the time. (I really couldn’t let that one go by)  Mike Royko, in his book, “I MAY BE WRONG BUT I DOUBT IT’, Regnery Publishers, Chicago, shares about Dave, a sensitive and creative new kind of bum. 

    Dave was a hippie and yes we are talking about yesterdays, long since lost in a sea of trash from the Hait-Asbury section of San Francisco and other city incubators of the new bum, hippie. This man, Dave, was not interested in self-control, he was interested in being ‘creative’ and smoking weird things to find ways to be more ‘creative’.
     Man is always moving away from God, society and responsibility. He rewrites rules and interprets the acceptability of his behavior by his standards.  Joshua was confronted by this approach among the people.
     Joshua made this statement in the face of those decisions; “and if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve . . . but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”  JOSHUA 24:15 NIV

Let us decide whom we shall serve, and do it intentionally.

Gardening tip: Gardeners serve at the pleasure of the weather, so . . . plan your rainy day, cold day jobs far ahead and have supplies on hand to complete the task.  Do likewise for the days you can get out during the winter.  Make every day count despite the weather.