Saturday, October 04, 2014

Would You Eat It?

So you say there are no jobs out there? Do you think of yourself as a rather good salesperson? I’ll let you in on the opportunity of a lifetime, perfect for any qualified entrepreneur. Do you know what a Myocastor coypu is? It’s an animal that looks like a beaver without the flat tail. In fact it has a rat tail and is commonly known as a nutria, or river rat, or muskrat, among other names. They were introduced to this part of the world for their fur, and the fact they are herbivores’, used for grass and plant control around waterways. Their fur is still sought after and valued, but the little critters are out of control when it comes to being environmentally friendly. In Louisiana the nutria is eating the plant life and destroying the wetlands by the hundreds of acres every year. In the state of Louisiana there is a move to convince people to hunt, kill, and then eat them. Now the hunting and killing I can understand, but it’s going to take a pretty good salesperson to get people to eating rats. So, here’s your opportunity to make a fortune in the Myocastoridae Bar-B-Que business. Invent your own sauce and you’re in!

There are a lot of things in this world that we can take opportunity of and there are a lot of things in this world we wish we had never known of. Two little teardrops were floating down the stream of life. One teardrop asked the other, “Who are you?” “I’m a teardrop from a girl who loved a man and lost him. And, who are you?” The first teardrop replied, “I’m a teardrop from the girl who got him!” Life is like that. We cry over the things we cannot have, but we might cry twice as much if we received them. Buddy Post of Oil City, Pennsylvania won the lottery in the amount of $16.2 million. Set for life, right? From that day, his world collapsed. He found himself caught up in a preposterous law suite, arrested for assault, his own brother was convicted of plotting to kill him and his wife left him. His winnings were lost in court battles with his ex-wife and the state of Pennsylvania. Buddy would have been much better off if he had never won the lottery. If I ever win the lottery, I’m running away from home.

[1 John] “…Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world – the cravings of sinful man, the lust of the eyes and the boasting of what he has and does – comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever…” (1 John 2:15-17). In your travels, would you pull into a Myocastoridae Bar-B-Que place of business for some delectable rat meat? Probably not, because now you know what it is. Yuk! What if it was served with the best Bar-B-Que sauce in the world on it; would you eat it then? Did you know, spiritually, we are what we eat? It would do well for each of us to ask what kind of spiritual diet we are on. It may in fact be rat meat and making us sick. What we see and what we hear goes into our heart and adds light or darkness to our souls. We have all seen the notice on some movies or books, “for adults only” or “adult content”. In reality, those items should be marked as “poisonous to the mind!” “…whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.” (Philippians 4:8). This will make a difference on how we look at and feel about the world. Over 25 times John writes that we can know God and the eternal life that awaits us.

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