It's HOT!

“Happy Birthday America!” I guess I don’t have to tell any of the local residents how hot and dry it is around here. But, as my weekly article has no boundaries of circulation, I thought maybe I’d come up with a top ten list of “How To Explain South Texas Heat To A Yankee”. #10 – Your dog has stopped chasing cars, but digs holes all over the yard looking for a cool place to lie. #9 – There’s water running down your back and the hardest work you’re doing is breathing. #8 – Less & less clothing. #7 – The cold water and the hot water in the house is the same temperature. #6 – Everything in the sunshine is too hot to handle, bare handed. #5 – Grass burrs thrive in the hot dry ground, and bedroom carpets. (You find them with your bare feet at two in the morning.) #4 – When you park your car at Wal-Mart, a half a dozen birds swoop down to drink the water dripping from the air conditioner. #3 – When you start your car first thing in the morning the temp gage instantly moves off of cold. #2 – After you start your car you hear a whimpering sound. You discover it’s coming from your GPS system. The poor thing thinks it is in Hades and has no directions to give on how to get out. And the # 1 way I can best explain heat in South Texas is; The thermometer reads 110 in the shade. Needless-to-say, we are in a serious drought situation here and we could use the prayers of everyone for some much-needed rain. It’s too late for the seasonal crops as they are all dried up and dead, but the ranchers are void of water for their cattle and without rain they will be void of hay and other feed. Fire is of great concern right now with hundreds of acres of dry grass ripe to be harvested in flames. Pray it doesn’t happen.
While getting some gardening tools from the shed, a preacher heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made him wilt in shame. Apparently, his five-year-old son, and his playmates, had found a dead robin. Feeling a proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole at the edge of the garden and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. The preacher’s son was chosen to say the appropriate prayer and with sonorous dignity, intoned his version of what he thought he had always heard his father say, “…glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnnn, and into the hole he goooes.” Kids; Ya’ got to love ‘em.
[2Peter 3: 10-14] The whole point of my writing is to help others discover the meaning of life and the rewards awaiting those who live a righteous life before God. It’s promised in God’s word that a very hot day is coming, without warning. That day will bring an end to all of creation and every soul will enter into an eternal existence. Luke records a story spoken by Jesus about a rich man and a beggar named Lazarus. (Luke 16: 19-31) Jesus gives us a glimpse of heaven and hell, and the permanent situation souls will find themselves in after their physical death. The rich man had it all and ignored the beggar at his doorstep. The beggar willingly accepted what life brought him. The beggar died and became rich. The rich man died and became a beggar. Are you waiting for concrete confirmation from heaven or hell before you are willing to believe? No new messages are forth coming before the end. What God has given us in His word is clearly enough for everyone to make a decision on where they want to spend eternity. If you don’t believe the Bible, you won’t be convinced, even if someone rises from the dead.