Believe it or not the Words for the Day website host server farm is still down. We have had to go to plan B and the Cuneo “odd couple” team has ingeniously found a way to mail out WFTD manually. I have to send them each day’s post and they work their magic and send it out to most of you somehow, and then post it to Facebook for those readers, and then enter it onto a makeshift website for those friends. It’s time consuming and a pain in the neck, but the word gets delivered.
The bottom line is that without a Plan B for Words for the Day, it would have been non-existent for the last couple of weeks and I am thankful to the Cuneos and their ingenuity and gracious assistance.
At Honey Lake we at long last finished all construction a few weeks back and I have been focusing on hammering and forging the operational aspects of the Resort and Spa into excellent shape. We have managed to recruit outstanding staff, including a first class executive chef, directors for lodging, event coordination, wedding planning, sales, activities, hunting and fishing, and maintenance.
I’m well satisfied with these excellent people, but am now working towards hiring and training backup personnel for each of these vital positions. I call it the “Mac Truck principle”; if one of them carelessly walks out in front of a Mac Truck and gets run over and ends up being iced down – toe up by nightfall, I want backup for that vital position by the very next morning. (It also applies when they are out sick, on vacation, resign, or “get the ax”.)
Simply put, in this old world we need backup because people, technology, and systems all occasionally fail for one reason or another. It is far better to develop a Plan B in order to avoid disaster. Preparation is the key.
The most important thing in all of life is preparing for eternity. Logic easily defines this axiom for us; the average person lives 77.9 years, give or take, but eternity lasts forever.
I think that is why the Bible advises us to think of our own deaths often. The brevity of life becomes more noticeable as we grow older and our friends start dropping out like flies all around us. We tend to think, “Yikes, am I going to be next?”
According to the Bible there is but one plan that will make our eternity peaceful and joyous. It is the plan of Salvation through Jesus Christ. Considering that eternity is forever, and life on planet earth is short, one would think that most everyone would focus on it, but that is simply not the case. Most spend their precious time chasing temporal material things, and the meaningless drivel of life instead of the lasting.
Jesus predicts the end result of our folly quite clearly by sternly warning us, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
I cannot understand why so many follow that broad road to destruction. (I can’t understand why so many want to vote for Obama either – Satanic deception maybe?)
Some statistics indicate that eleven out of twelve new businesses fail in the first five years. Most have not carefully prepared for owning their own business and don’t even have a business plan, much less a backup plan. Further they don’t seem to understand that hard work and perseverance are required in owning one’s own business and it cannot run itself.
With Salvation Jesus Christ did the hard work and no backup plan B is required. We simply need faith and perseverance in following and obeying Christ as best we can and the reward will be ours and is assured. Failure is not an option.
Jesus Christ is the narrow gate mentioned in the Bible and as it states in Matthew we should make every effort to follow Him before we are faced with trying to enter heaven through that narrow door. Without the blood of Christ covering our many sins we will be turned away from heaven’s door and no amount of knock – knock – knocking will get us in…
Have a great weekend and go to church this Sunday!
Luke 13:24
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.”