Our Fruit Will Be What We Are...

Water cannot rise above its own level. Neither can a Christian by any sudden spasmodic effort rise above the level of his own spiritual life. I have seen under the sun how a man of God will let his tongue go all day in light and frivolous conversation, let his interest roam abroad among the idle pleasures of this world, and then, under the necessity of preaching at night, seek a last minute reprieve just before service and by cramming desperately in prayer try to put himself in a position where the spirit of the prophet will descend upon him as he enters the pulpit. By working himself up to an emotional white heat he may afterward have reason to congratulate himself that he had much liberty in preaching the Word. But he deceives himself and there is no wisdom in him. What he has been all day and all week is what he is when he opens his Bible to expound unto the people. Water cannot rise above its own level...
Men do not gather grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles. The fruit of a tree is determined by the tree, and the fruit of life by the kind of life it is. What a man is interested in to the point of absorption both decides and reveals what kind of man he is; and the kind of man he is by a secret law of the soul decides the kind of fruit he will bear. The catch is that we are often unable to discover the true quality of our fruit until it is too late.
If we would be realistic in our Christian lives we must not overlook the tremendous power of affinity. By affinity I mean the sympathetic attraction which certain things and persons have for us. The human heart is extremely sensitive and altogether capable of setting up an inward relationship with objects far removed and forbidden. As the needle of the compass has an affinity for the north magnetic pole, so the heart can keep true to its secret love though separated from it by miles and years. What that loved object is may be discovered by observing which direction our thoughts turn when they are released from the hard restraints of work or study. Of what do we think when we are free to think of what we will? What object gives us inward pleasure as we brood over it? Over what do we muse in our free moments? To what does our imagination return again and again?

Just a neat thought that I ran across, what do you think about it...? Good luck...

Web Design...

Well, I am attempting one of the harder things that I have ever done on a computer. WEB DESIGN... For all of you designers out there, my hat goes off to you. You are a special breed of talent, patience, and creativity that I hope soon to master, but this trial is turning to be more difficult than I anticipated. Not much more left in my head to write about, just trying to get something up for the "CUBIT Foundation," within the next week or so...

You can check out my progress at www.cubitfoundation.org

We only have today...

What would you do if you knew that this was your last day on earth? How would you live? If this should be my last day on this earth, where should I go? Who should I talk to? Would you take a hike or buy an expensive car? Would you spend all your money or give it away? If you knew that you would not be here tomorrow, would it change your life...

Let me know what you think...

About time...

Well, I figure that it is about time to get back to updating this blog regularly so that all those who are interested can stay informed of what amazing things are happening around the world...

As of right now, I am on the road full time anywhere from Texas to Germany to Egypt traveling around doing whatever I can to help those who need help the most. I am working with "The CUBIT Foundation." This is a non profit humanitarian organization that focuses on Children's feeding programs, water provision (purifying, and providing), and construction. We have done work from the Egyptian desert to the beautiful mountains of Romania, to the big cities of India, and to the Jungle covered mountains of South America. There is nothing stopping us from working in many other places all around the world. As long as there is a need to help someone and we can give it, we will do it.

Today I headed off to school in Newburgh Indiana for a week full of lectures and paper writing... So I will keep you up to date this week of what the plans are for the next few months and try to give a good depiction of the last few weeks that I spent in Peru South America...

Until then,