Zeke Sawyer, who owns the Stinking River Timber Company, was walking a tract of timber recently. About half way through his appraisal walk, he sat down on a log, opened up his lunch pack and started to enjoy a can of Van Camp Pork n Beans, a pack of Zesta saltines and a Little Debbie Pecan Twirl Cookie. In the cooling part of his lunch pack, he had a couple of Diet Dr. Peppers, so he grabbed one out to have with his lunch. As he was dipping his plastic spoon into his can of Van Camp Pork n Beans, he started thinking. For years most of what Zeke thought about was timber, the price of timber, how many sawed feet he could get out of a tract. This thinking was necessary to build up the business he had. But, that day, sitting on the log, eating pork n beans, and sipping on his Diet Dr. Pepper, Zeke was thinking about something else. Thered been a lot of sickness and death in his family recently and it was getting harder for Zeke to take it. There he was, sitting on the log, thinking about all the things that had happened, when a sense of sadness just sort of overwhelmed him. By the time he took his first bit of his Little Debbie Pecan Twirl Cookie, he was downright sad. When he took his second bite he looked up in an old hickory tree to see two squirrels running up and down the tree and out on the limbs doing their mating dance. At about the same time, while he was chewing on his second bite, he heard a turkey gobbler down by the spring branch, calling for his mate. A couple of deer ran down the power line over to the left of the log where Zeke was sitting and he watched their grace as they bounded through the brush, just over to the left. As he was balling up his trash and getting ready to put it back in his lunch pack, he noticed some green shoots coming out from the ground right next to his left foot. Zeke Sawyer, took his last swallow of Diet Dr. Pepper, looked up toward a clear blue sky, and went home a peaceful man. Todays assignment from the Stinking River School of Theology and Stuff is sponsored by Stinking River Timber Company--big or small--we saw it all. Now todays assignment. Today we turn to Johns Gospel, chapter 13 and verses 1-11. Who does John say put it into Judas Iscariots heart to betray Jesus? What does John tell us about Jesus knowledge of what was going on around him? What did Jesus do? Why do you think Simon Peter responded to Jesus act the way he did? How do you understand the words of Jesus in verse 10? In the time of Jesus, washing a persons feet was an act of hospitality to welcome someone into the home and an act usually performed by a servant. With that in mind, why does Jesus take on the role of a servant? What home was he welcoming them into? Extra credit question of the day: What does Jesus say is an example for us in verses 14 and 15? Go...read the Bible...enjoy your reading...let it speak....open your heart and your mind to the endless possibilities of the Holy Spirit.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 10:33:52 +0000
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