10-15-20 THOUGHTS

Yesterday, I came to my thinking place about 5 AM and just couldn’t think.  I couldn’t get started.  I was basically blank.  I’ve got all of God’s word in front of me and I can’t think of anything valid to say?  “Sorry Church...  No thoughts today!  The preacher needs a reset! His mind is not responding.  (I see that on my computer now and then)”    It may happen one day.  One day it will happen, never to return.  Lord let me say what I can while I can!  Let me do what I can while I can!  May I be willing!
As I write the above, I am sobered once again.  My mind is absorbed with what I can and can’t do. Maybe it’s what I will or will not do?    I was introduced to the idea of OPPORTUNITY FOREGONE in a cost analysis class in college.  The idea is that you can only do one thing at a time.  If you choose A, you automatically don’t choose B, C etc.  When you choose, you choose what you will do and what you will not do.  Incidentally, when you choose to do NOTHING, you destroy OPPORTUNITY.  It seems to me that life largely is response to opportunity?  Sometimes finding opportunity means taking a risk.  When you fail to choose, you allow someone else to choose for you, or you let circumstance rule your life.  

A story of opportunity and choice. Play it safe, no risk did not turn out so good. 

Matt 25:14-29    "For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them. 15  "To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. 16  "Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents.17  "In the same manner the one who had received the two talents gained two more. 18  "But he who received the one talent went away, and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money. 19  "Now after a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. 20  "The one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted five talents to me. See, I have gained five more talents.’ 21  "His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’   (There is a repeat with the two talent man here)    24  "And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed. 25  ‘And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’ 26  "But his master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed. 27  ‘Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. 28  ‘Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’ 29  "For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.

My Prayer:
Oh Lord, help us to choose wisely how we occupy our time.  Teach us to walk wisely and redeem the time that is ours.  In our small part of your great eternity Oh God, we pray that we will count for right.
We exalt your wonderful name.                  In the name of Jesus                 Amen