Friday, June 29, 2012

I'm Back!

I have had extensive difficulty with my blogger/post connection. It now seems as though things have been remedied. Thanks for your patience. Here is a great little story from Henry Blackaby. Hope it makes us think!

"The story is told of a godly man who sought to read his Bible and pray every morning for an hour before he went about his other chores and responsibilities. He generally spent this time with the Lord in the privacy of his own bedroom before joining others in his family for breakfast. The man was faithful in his discipline, but sometimes found that he became sidetracked when his cat wandered into his room and began to purr loudly as it rubbed against his pant leg. The solution to this problem? He leashed the cat to one of the bedposts while he spent his time reading and praying.

The man's son witnessed the behavior of his father. He grew up admiring his father's devotion and as he became an adult and moved out on his own, he sought to copy his father's discipline. He bought a cat and tied it to the bedpost just as his father had done, and then spent a little time reading his Bible and praying-unless, of course, he was running late. On most days, he spent only a few minutes in his devotional time, but he never failed to leash the cat to the bedpost.

That man, in turn, had a son who also admired his father and sought to be just like him. When he became an adult, he purchased a cat and faithfully leashed it to the bedpost each morning as he was getting dressed and ready for the day. When his little boy asked him why he was doing that, he replied, 'I'm not quite sure, but my father always leashed his cat to the bedpost and he was a good man who loved God. I think maybe tying the cat to the bedpost was a part of his faith ritual. So I tie the cat to the bedpost, too.' Is there something in your life that has no real spiritual meaning, but which you regularly do?"