Monthly Archives: August 2008

later in the day, back in early July, I continued to enjoy the coastline headed for the tip of Africa at Cape L’ Agulha

part two gives the viewer a chance to think about their reaction to part one… (if you have not seen part one, you really ought to scroll down to see it first)

check this out… every few years a new vehicle for telling the big story comes along… years ago it was the four spiritual laws then it was E.E., this is a new system that is getting some press… give it a look (it’s three minutes long):

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on the actual YouTube site there is a fair amount of comment… any thoughts?

there is a follow up video that I’ll post tomorrow…

thinking more about the post on appetites… here are two Scriptures that I frequently meditate upon:

Give us neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full and deny thee, and say who is the Lord? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. Pr. 30:8b-9, KJV?

A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise keepeth it in till afterward. Pr. 29:10, KJV? 

moderation…

I was thinking more about the aforementioned film (yesterday’s post) and the themes that are explored… and the idea of appetite came to mind…

what are we hungry for?

what are our appetites? fame? riches? popularity? power? love? companionship? knowledge? relationships?

personally, I have to admit I have pretty big appetites and go after what I am hungry for with zeal…

where does self control come in? what is self control? is the ability to contain oneself?

Scripture says it is a fruit of the Spirit, a result of the Spirit working within us… but for the Spirit to work within us requires our submission… as I consider submission, isn’t it almost the opposite of succumbing to appetite? In Friday’s film, Ryder is told (in essence) that he is going through the family and destroying them one at a time… but in the end, faith proved stronger than un-belief… faith empowered self-control…

“…happiness now is irrelavant, it is the hereafter…”

though you may argue with this quote (may will, based on their theological grounding), it bears consideration…

what are we hungry for? think on this, this sabbath