Quality without the Zika virus

Dragonflies

I was thinking of the word "quality" today. Now decades ago, quality meant something made to last. It was made to last long, have a look of style without regrets in it! I remember this ad from a television division that the quality would go in before the name would go on.....that is into the future!
Had a flashback to the earlier day and how anything our family bought lasted for years. My mother had no automatic dishwasher other than my sister and myself.  One of us would wash and the other would dry. Of course the one drying had some extra opportunity to complain about the dishwasher. I like drying myself, but I chose to rinse again if need be. But anyone who dried them, had to put them away and that meant extra work indeed! So if you liked drying and complaining, you paid back in extra work.
Heard this clip of a mid-afternoon show coming on (yesterday)...it was during the news break at noon. I actually like One America News because they give accurate news and not the garbage the regular media seem to think I want to hear. NO thank you!
From a local station, a preview of a coming attraction showed this young woman of about twenty and she did not think her dad was giving her enough money to live on weekly. Okay I am catching up, now what ....is she receiving an allowance or what? Then the host of the show shouted out a thousand dollars a week. I stopped from exiting the room. A thousand dollars a week? And the young woman starts to cry, stands up like in a fit of hurt and demands more money, because....and hear this....she does not want to work at a job because " it is so hard"!

I had no words. Really I still have no words for this thing I heard and they televised yesterday. I figure if you are in good health, no broken bones and have a brain, you can work at a job. Most people I know have jobs, have worked at a job or are about to get a new job! How exciting is that to do something, be creative in the person God created each of us to be, right?

So with quality, washing dishes, and a thousand a week is not enough.....something is out of whack somewhere! I remember my dad saying a job was an advantage to many people. He grew up in the time of the great depression and many people had no jobs to go to or make money for their families.
In all this, I think what an advantage we have in God when He can show us the right place to work to make the finances we require, we can find ways to make washing dishes fun when you really dislike the dishwasher to run. (people say the run quiet today, I disagree!)
But by prayer each day we can touch the face of God and speak of the desires in the new job, maybe a new dishwasher or even pray for someone else's need.
Making demands today seems to be the rule of the day. People making demands on that which they either know nothing of or they know all too well!
BUT what about the demand for quality to go in us before we go any further?

Quality: the standard of a thing measured; to the degree of excellence: do you work toward a better marriage, do you work in knowing your kids better

Working order: working according to the nature and the purpose of a machine or of a person…OF A person will be one….of favorable character with tendency/ praiseworthy character Merriam Webster Dictionary

That Strength is Living conditions that regards one alive with life blood, as to  necessity for food, shelter, clothing   and security..….. also to having regard for actual life that which is valid…., has the meaning of the legitimate living by force…that is sound and reliable.                                                      

Do people see us as being sound, reliable, a legitimate one who lives with ability, a quality of excellence that has a praiseworthy character?   

 Within this code of conduct, it was our God who gave us true happiness and well being through that which is truth in His instruction. 

 In a nation that was founded on God, the initial word at the very beginning was for people to read and write.

In all the years I went to school and graduated from high school, the point was to be educated to read and write and to work at some job. It was to prepare for " the future"! Yesterday my husband and I were appalled to hear that in city of Detroit Michigan that only a 5 percent number of those graduating high school have the ability to read and write their own name. In the city of Baltimore Maryland, it was a little more at 11 percent of those graduating high school could read and write their name. Why is that leaders are allowing the young people to be "dumbing down" when educated should be the optimum word for the day of their youth to their graduation year. They say many are not going to college because of money, but I wonder how many are not going to college because they cannot read or write. I know this is going on in some cities for we heard it done last year in a school system in Oregon.

Quality! If measured to the excellence scale where will most find themselves whether the business owner, the college professor or the doctor at some hospital? I certainly want someone qualified to operate if that is necessary for life, but if they cannot read or write then they will have no credentials to do that "thing". How sad for so many who lack an education they really deserved.

While at home, we did what we were asked and for an allowance, I do not remember one. We helped out with chores and feeding the livestock, and we got to see a movie once and awhile, but I do not remembering feeling that I missed anything from the time. I loved being with my parents, although I did not feel that I knew that all that well, but they saw that they had a job, and they saw we were fed and clothed with education in mind for our futures!

No, in fondness I think of the times of washing dishes with my sister, I think of the conversations we had around the table in the kitchen and how much laughter spilled into the yard for many to hear in our neighborhood. We never seemed to be without, but I remember my mother telling me at times not to ask for anything.
BUT there was generally two things I always asked for: one was pens to write my school work and the other was "ruled paper" to write the homework on to deliver it to the teacher the next day.
Yes in fondness, I think of my parents who decided to put some quality in their children and into their family. I pray that will happen in these United States of this country we call America. There should be no dumbing down for our youth, for they will lead someday. Hopefully it will not be in a welfare line, the food line or even any kind of hand out line, but they receive an education that will help them grow in life to become those responsible citizens this country needs!

Let's be responsible adults. We are to know the authority that has been given us here on earth in our salvation. Our authority that came through Jesus is to rule by the word of God, stand firm believing God's instruction to us and then be fully committed to seeing His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Only that which is allowed as holy is that which is approved by God. It is not by manipulating others to get something or even to get something done.
If this lack of quality in lives continues and famine appears what will be the outcome? The headline may carry news of famine, disease or Zika virus. But as a child of God I check out dried food reserves, I pray for clouds of dragonflies to come to this region of Washington and eat up those mosquitoes with Zika virus and I expect God to show us the next instruction for all our days on this earth.
If you wash a dish, or dry a dish, if you require extra money every week for living expenses the best place to start is with God. And pray for the youth of your community that they will be raised in the admonition of the Lord, be raised to be excited about going to school, to learn to read and write and to become the citizens God intended for them to become. We are to remember God is faithful and those who call on Him in spirit and truth, He will answer as we abide in His family, He will move prosperity to our home, life into our lives and continue to experience His goodness all the days of our lives in that quality of excellence! Amen.

Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of the Lord makes one rich and He adds to sorrow to it.

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An Artesian Well of Good or a Nasty Flood of Evil

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Ecclesiastes 9:17  ESV The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

I wrote out a number of scripture verses to study and memorize for 2017. In them, I am looking into speaking with less words, more to the point and less opinion. It is important to get to the point and to keep an opinion out of the way of God's truth. I am thinking people get enough of the other from T.V.
I also went to look at other scriptures like the one above in scripture knowledge and found this one that speaks the same or in a similar way.
Proverbs 28:23..NKJV....He who rebukes a man will find more favor afterward than he would flatters with the tongue.


James 3:13-18 cinches this  all together.
James 3:13-18 ..........NKJV....Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. 16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is fire pure, then peaceable, gently, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

God's wisdom gives us the insight and how to rightly implement His knowledge through out our days. His wisdom is vital in everyday conversations with your spouse, your children ( grown up or still at home), with co-workers, with those at the grocery store, postal office, or other. And His wisdom is good for any people and at any age of life.

Pondering God's thoughts for us is always a needed thing. I am always wanting to seek out that quiet time, and hear the quiet voice, yes, the small still voice that is not like the world. It is one which speaks by asking you first, "Why are you here?"

1 Kings 19:9  NKJV
9 And there he went into a cave, and spent the night in that place; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, "What are doing here, Elijah?"


AND of course, Elijah has his answer. He was zealous for the Lord. Coming from chapter 18 of 1 Kings we saw and heard the spectacular of God. In all that Elijah was believing all hearts would be changed to God, evidently in an instant, which they were not. Jezebel was still Queen and had hatred for Elijah. Elijah still had the Holy Spirit but in his zealousness, he was not allowing God His true way. Of course, Elijah went into a depression, and desired his life to be over.

God asked a question in Genesis 3:9.
Genesis 3:9 NKJV .....The the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?"
Now we know God was not asking out of any ignorance, but rather as a parent to the child.
"Where are you?"

If we are shouting to others, then who will really hear us? If we want (or demand) our way, and shouting is the norm, then I would say, 'no one ever hears you!"
Any within your region of influence will be looking for "EXIT" SIGN!
Having the righteousness of God is having fruit and that fruit is sown in peace by those who make peace. (James 3:18)
Jesus taught thousands on hillsides outside Jerusalem and I never read HE had a megaphone.

In Proverbs 28:23, we find honesty, though painful will always win the long-term reward. The MESSAGE Bible speaks it this way: ' in the end, serious reprimand is appreciated far more than boot-licking flattery.

Again James 3:14 and 15.....tells us that .....if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. 16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.

Any relationship and any time given as in bible studies, teaching and preaching the word of God and in everyday life are to be lived in wisdom of God, spoken with less words, and remain in His peace. Remaining in His righteousness, and receiving Jesus we have righteousness, but it is that which is from God. WE must remain in God!

Proverbs 17:27 ESV... Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
The Message Bible writes it this way: the one who knows much says little; an understanding person remains calm.
That tongue can certainly cause someone to sin. And the tongue can when used loosely will produce sin.

So if God asked "Where are you?" Could we or would we say, "we are waiting on Him in His presence to hear Him speak to us?"
Or would we with loose lips, complain and ask Him why He delays something we really want or think we really need?

As in teaching and preaching God's Word requires no dilution! So too wordiness brings evil with an intent to harm or hurt. But true teaching of God is yes, a rebuke at times, but is a place of healing, a place of experiencing God and His love and having an ability to live it and tell it to others.

In view of others, it is only God's word that is to be given and the word which will heal. It is not up to us who give God's word to make sure the other receives it. We are not the Holy Spirit, but we are too give that which is the divine blessing God desires others to have.
I had another favorite scripture I add today.
It is found in Habakkuk 2.
Habakkuk 2:1-4
1 I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected. 2 Then the Lord answered me and said: "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come.. It will not tarry. "Behold the proud , His soul is not upright in him; but the just shall live by faith.

I had a teaching on this many years ago. In essence it is to write anything God has spoken to you. Keep it in a journal and add to that which God speaks. In dealing with others, we are to keep our commitment to God and time with Him. In that we do not become the intoxicated in our selves. We should not be the self-seeking and be those who envy. Because we indulge in our own gratification and see how many we can smooze with worldly talk, then we become the "stinking proud".

We are to be the righteous. We are to be promoting peace, but we also must know that peace comes with a big price. And in that is all of God and no opinion of or by man. It is certainly good that we mourn corruption, wickedness and even those abominations in the land. For in that we are revealing God, His heart and His character.
As we speak with few words, but in the strength of His, we reach the concerned, and the distressed. And those who may be away from Him will come back again to His love and His kingdom which is by faith.
Some things will not happen overnight. For it takes time to recover, to be reconciled, endure with patience as Jesus did.  Our souls are to endure in Jesus. By the Word, we adhere to Him and then move to that to which we are the destined.

In that time of quiet, we speak with less words, and desire to His strong voice speaking so low, yet so peaceful and still with power that comes from God. I write the vision for what He has given me to journal. I write that which is given to place on my heart, the tablet that reads of His word so that I might run to that which I am the appointed.
Whew, God did not ask me "where are you"? But what did He say? What was the last scripture verse He gave you and when did He give it?

Learning to wait in the quiet, hear the still small voice and abide in not only loving Him but obeying Him!

If you think you need a megaphone, ask God why you feel you are not heard? Pay attention to your own life and do you give others time to speak or do you monopolize the conversation? Another question would be if you desire all the attention?

Conducting our lives in God's principles gives a wealth of His wisdom to operate in His power. Having revelation to handle each comes by the Holy Spirit. We are not compromise but abide in peace without envy, confusion and self-seeking encounters.

I close with this verse. Proverbs 18:4 The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook. NKJV
Message Bible  Proverbs 18:4 Many words rush along the rivers in flood, but deep wisdom flows up from artesian springs.

When we speak, does it look and sound like a really big flood in the early spring or does it appear more like that Artesian well ......where God's wisdom bubbles up to exhort and speak to the point with few words?
Proverbs 10:11...NKJV speaks that the mouth of the righteous is a well of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
That means that there are two situations that can occur with the tongue. Speaking right in righteousness that is of God brings life, and speaking the other in envy, confusion, strife, etc, only brings violence.

How about living in peace and using only God's Words?

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