While filling my gas tank the other day I had a flash-back to 1970 when I was in the Air Force stationed at Randolph AFB. I was also working part time at the base gas station pumping gas costing as little as fourteen cents a gallon during some of the gas wars at the time. Maybe you don’t know what a gas war was. Gasoline used to be so cheap and gas stations were so plentiful, that station owners would drop the price of fuel just to get more business at their location. Then everyone in the area would have to drop their prices to get their normal business back again. Well, you couldn’t get ten dollars worth of gas in the biggest of the biggest cars back then. This fill-up just cost me sixty dollars for fifteen gallons of gas. Of course my foremost thought is, “I hope somebody chokes on every penny of profit from this sale!” Well, I guess I feel just like everyone else. I’m being fleeced of every nickel I’ve got and I’m really becoming concerned as to what the future holds. I hope the last car running is a classic, with big fins.
A sales clerk went to the manager with a problem. “How”, he asked, “can I stop women customers from complaining about our prices and talking about the low prices of the good old days?” “Very easy”, replied the manager. “Act surprised and tell them you didn’t think they were old enough to remember them.”
There once was a man who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed he had only three hairs on his head. “Well”, he said, “I think I’ll comb my hair to the left today.” So he did, and he had a wonderful day. The next day he woke up, looked in the mirror, and saw that he had only two hairs on the top of his head. “Hmmm”, he said. “I think I’ll part my hair down the middle today.” So he did, and had a great day. The next day he woke up, looked in the mirror, and saw he had only one hair on his head. “Well”, he said, “Today I’m going to wear my hair in a pony tail.” He did, and had a grand day. The next day he woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed he didn’t have a single hair left on his head. “Yea!” he exclaimed. “I don’t have to fix my hair today!”
[Psalm 37: 25] David wrote, “I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.” So, who is righteous? First of all, God is righteous. (Psalm 145:17) All that God does is good and is pleasing to man. Of course man doesn’t always think so. Noah was a righteous man. (Genesis 6: 8-9) He was blameless among the people and he walked with God. Abram believed the Lord and he credited it to him as righteousness. (Genesis 15:6) To be looked upon as a righteous person in the eyes of God, I must be blameless among my peers and all that I do must be pleasing to God. Am I always pleasing to God in all that I do every day? I’d be a liar if I said yes. But, like Abram, I believe the promises of God and the greatest of them, to me, is that He will forgive me of my sins. I also believe that God will never forsake me no matter how bad I think things are in this life. As I continue to walk daily with God I’m learning that righteousness has a lot to do with attitude. Although the man saw he was losing his hair day by day, he didn’t allow the situation ruin his day, and as we all know, a bad frame of mind can ruin a perfectly good day for everybody around us. Paul said he learned the secret of being content in any situation. God gave him the strength to carry on. (Philippians 4:11-13) A righteous attitude is found in God’s grace. (2 Cor. 12:7-10)
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