IN MAY of 2008 I wrote a Morning Glory called "What is your beginning" and posted it January 1, 2009. 8 years ago was a long time back but I would like to revisit that blog with a few touches here and there of updating and remembering. Our world has faced a lot of obstacles since the entrance of the millennium. Remember the chaos of the computerized world facing the upcoming crash as the clock went from 1999 to 2000.
REMEMBER facing the Y2K crisis? Remember the electronic world scrambling to have a program ready just in case the year reverted back to 1900, instead of moving onto 2000. However, the computers carried on into the millennium without a hitch. Business as usual went on! The world went onto bigger and better programs, along with bigger and better gadgets that they could hold in their hands, so they would no longer have to communicate with each other, over the breakfast table. Instead, they hold their gadgets clicking with their thumbs and wonder why they don’t know each other any more. None of us have remained the same since that time!
EVERYTHING HAS A PAST! Good or bad, there is a past! Lots of times we refer to history to help us to remember. For instance, lets take a look at the 7/11 store! Many of you may already know these things but I find some trivia interesting. The 7/ll Store began sometime during the depression which was in the 30's and it’s beginning was as an "ICE HOUSE." This means they only sold blocks of ice to be use in "ice boxes" which were used to keep food cold. We now have refrigerators and only a few ice boxes are still being used. The name of 7/11 was to advertise the hours of the store. They were open from 7:00 am until 11:00 pm. Hence; 7/11!
THROUGH the years they thought of changing it to 24/7 but decided it was best to just leave it alone. When folks would come for their ice, they would ask why they didn’t also sell; milk! So, they sold ice and milk. Then they were asked about eggs; so they sold ice, milk and eggs. Bread was the next selection and before you knew it, they started adding many items that were regularly requested and today they stock well over 4000 different items to satisfy their customers. In 1957 they began to serve "slurpies" and they became an instant success. Many of us are happy to find they are open all night!
EVERYTHING has a beginning no matter how trivial. What about you? What is your beginning? Has it kept you from moving forward, or has it held you back? My Mom and Dad ran an Ice House also! Although I hadn’t made it on the scene yet, it was a beginning for our family. However, their running an Ice House was not the success of their life, but raising a family of fourteen children was. I guess success is measured by your own perspective.
"BELOVED, "I do not consider that I have made it my own (that is obtain eternal life) but this one thing I do; forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead! I press on toward the goal, for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13-14 Paul spent a lot of time in prison! He didn’t have time to relive what he had done to the Christians, but instead he was his focusing his attention on teaching and preaching the gospel.
WHERE ARE YOU today? How does what Paul did, compare to what you must leave behind? What was Paul pressing towards? The prize of the upward calling. "Eternal life!" Paul says that he was not perfect! He was not complete or yet finished here on earth! Paul was saying he had no righteousness of his own. I have discovered that I too have no righteousness of my own. I too am diligent about what I put into Morning Glory and what I teach and preach in Soul Sisters Bible Study. God doesn’t keep a file on my past and He doesn’t keep a file on yours. What He does keep, is a place in His heart for each us; urgently asking all, to consider a life time of service in His Kingdom; His righteousness can be yours! By Jane Ann Crenshaw 1/3/15
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