Musings by John Weir

Come with me to a third grade classroom….. There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It’s never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they’ll never speak to him again as long as he lives. The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his head down and prays this prayer, "Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I’m dead meat." He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered.

As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy’s lap. The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, "Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!" Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else – Susie. She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. You’ve done enough, you klutz!"

Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, "You did that on purpose, didn’t you?" Susie whispers back, "I wet my pants once too."

May God help us see the opportunities that are always around us to do good. Remember…..Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

Each and everyone one of us are going through tough times right now,  but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that only He can. Keep the  faith.

•God has given us all an amazing equal gift.

•It is called  God’s “Success Capital.”

•It is what you have to invest daily and get  return on with your Success Investment.

•God expects a return on His Success Capital.

•Like investing in the stock market, you can either get a Return on Investment, or a Loss.

•Most people operate with a loss with their Success Capital- and struggle in life because of it.

“To one He gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability.” Matt 25:15

•Success seems to be something that a lot of people are focused on today.

•They read books, listen to CDs, watch videos, go to seminars, and try to find the “secret” of Success

•Many Christians today are talking about Marketplace Ministries and Faith in the business world.

•Most everyone is looking for a better life, not a stressed out one as many people live.

•What is the “secret” to Success as a Christian?

“So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day.”

Acts 17:17

•God has given us 86,400 seconds in a day. That is some SERIOUS Success Capital

•That is 1,440 minutes in a day to massively Succeed for God’s Glory and Holy Kingdom Plan.

•Here is a Secret: Most people SPEND their Success Capital known as TIME- not Invest it.

•They spend all day doing unproductive things in their own power, burying their Capital in the ground

•TIME is THE Success Capital we must INVEST and get a return on for God!

“My times are in thy hand.”
Psalms 31:15

Within every love, there is fear; the fear of separation from that which you love.

A child fears separation from her parents, a lover from his love, the body fears separation from the soul and the soul from its Source Above.

So what do you love? Look at your worries and you will know. If you worry about your debts and financial future, then it is the material world you love, because you believe in the material world and you see it as the source of all good. If you sit and worry over the comments of others and the glances they throw at you then it is social acceptance that you love, that you have made into your god.

Cleave to the True Source Above and your heart will have no room for the fears of this world.

Tzvi Feeman

Just a few more days and another year is over. Goodbye 2009 and hello to a new 2010. This promises to be a great year as is is the start of a brand new decade. You still have time to work on your plan and goals for the new year. Get busy.