Of Pearls and Pigs

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. [Matthew 7:6 KJV]

                                                          

What are the pearls?  Spiritual knowledge or material resources in the form of money, goods and services?  Both?

Who are the swine?  Be careful with your answer.  For who, from among us, was not wallowing in the mud before our Heavenly Father called for them to come out?

Alas, it would not fulfill His purposes to force anyone to be who they do not want to be.  Therefore, all who would have rather stayed in the slop will be allowed to return to it.  For it is written: These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.  For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.  They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”  If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.  It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.  Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.” [2 Peter 2:17-21 NIV]

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Waiting For You To Fall

Link: [The Jayhawks]

Waiting For The Sun

The Jayhawks

I was waitin’ for the Son

Then I walked on home alone

What I didn’t know

Was He was waitin’ for

You to fall

So I never made amends

For the sake of no one else

For the simple reason

That He was waitin’ for

You to fall

It was not lost on me

It was not lost on me

Walkin’ on down the road

Lookin’ for a friendly handout

Somethin’ might ease my soul

So I kept my spirits high

Entertaining passers-by

Wrapped in my confusion

While He was waitin’ for

You to fall

It was not lost on me

It was not lost on me

Walkin’ on down the road

Lookin’ for a friendly handout

Somethin’ might ease my soul

It was not lost on me

It was not lost on me

Walkin’ on down the road

Walkin’ on down the road

Walkin’ on down the road

Walkin’ on down the road

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So Blue

Link: [The Jayhawks]

Blue

The Jayhawks

Where have all my friends gone

They’ve all disappeared

Turned around maybe one day

You’re all that was there

Stood by on believing

Stood by on my own

Always thought I was someone

Turned out I was wrong

And you

Brought my through

And you

Made me feel

So blue

Why don’t you stay behind

So blue

Why don’t you stop

And look at what’s goin’ down

If I had an old woman

She’d never sell me a lie

It’s hard to sing with someone

Who won’t sing with you

Give all of my mercy

Give all of my heart

Never thought that I’d miss you

That I’d miss you so much

And you

Brought my through

And you

Made me feel

So blue

Why don’t you stay behind

So blue

Why don’t you stop

And look at what’s goin’ down

All my life

Staying while

I’m waiting for

Staying while

Someone I could

Waiting around

Show the door

Not that I’m blue

But nothing seems to change

That I’m blue from now on

You come back that month

So blue

Why don’t you stay behind

So blue

Why don’t you

Why don’t you stay behind

So blue

Why don’t you

Why don’t you stay behind

So blue

Why don’t you stop

And look at what’s goin’ down

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Not Seeing So Well

Link: [The Jayhawks]

Stumbling Through The Dark

The Jayhawks

You're so in love

Little girl

So much in love

Little girl

Runnin' around in circles

Why

You know it's a crime

No less

No more

Than a rose

No less

No more

Than a rose

Try to attach a meanin’

To words that you've heard

Stumblin’ through the dark

Seems I'm stumblin’ through the dark

Everybody's stumblin’ through the dark

The men who proceeded us here

Left only questions and fears

The vanity formed by beauty lies

You know it's a crime

Stumblin’ through the dark

Seems I'm stumblin’ through the dark

Everybody's stumblin’ through the dark

Stumblin’ through the dark

Seems I'm stumblin’ through the dark

Everybody's stumblin’ through the dark

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No Joke

An old joke has flood waters creeping closer to where a man sits on the roof of his house.  In a loud voice, he prays, “Lord, please come to my rescue in my hour of great need!”  A few minutes later, a neighbor paddles his canoe up next to the man and invites him to come join him in the canoe.  “No,” the man answers, I have prayed to the Lord, and I must remain where I am until He sees fit to deliver me out of this peril.”  As the neighbor was paddling away while shaking his head in disbelief over the man’s refusal to be rescued by him, he noticed that the flood waters were now almost up the man’s waist as he clung to the chimney sticking out of the roof of his house.  In an even louder voice, the man prayed again, “Lord, please come to my rescue in my hour of great need!!”  A few minutes later, a large rubber raft, with several members of the Navy onboard, floated right up next to him, and a Naval officer told him to reach out his hand in order to make it easier to be brought into the raft.  Again, the man answered the call for him to accept help, “No, I have prayed to the Lord, and I must remain where I am until He sees fit to deliver me out of this peril.”  The Naval personnel all had looks of great shock on their faces as they speed off to go help someone else, and after they had went a fair piece away, one of them told the commanding officer that he had seen through a pair of binoculars that the man was now hanging from the top of his chimney, with his head barely above the water line.  In a voice that now sounded more like a scream than a prayer, the man cried out, “Lord, please come to my rescue in my hour of great need!!!”  A few minutes later, a Coast Guard helicopter eased over his position, and a rescue diver dove into the water to help him get into the basket that was being lowered from the helicopter.  Again, the man answered the call for him to accept help, “No, I have prayed to the Lord, and I must remain where I am until He sees fit to deliver me out of this peril.”  The helicopter was not quite out of sight before the flood waters rose above his head, and the man drowned.  When the man stood before the Lord on Judgment Day, he asked Him, “Why did you not come to my rescue?”  With great sadness in His voice, the Lord answered him, “My son, I sent two different types of watercraft and a helicopter, but refused to see my hand at work.”

The absolute truth of the matter truly is that far too many in the Christian community fail to see our Heavenly Father’s hand at work because of the situation at hand not fitting in with their beliefs.  Alas, who can truly see without looking at things through His eyes, but who is so blind as the one who refuses to see?

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How Do You Do?

Link: [Johnny Cash]

A Boy Named Sue

Johnny Cash

Well

My daddy left home

When I was three

And he didn't leave much

To ma and me

Just this old guitar

And an empty bottle of booze

Now I don't blame him

‘Cause he run and hid

But the meanest thing

That he ever did

Was before he left

He went and named me Sue

Well

He must of thought

That it was quite a joke

And it got a lot of laughs

From a lot of folks

It seems I had to fight

My whole life through

Some gal would giggle

And I'd get red

And some guy'd laugh

And I'd bust his head

I tell ya

Life ain't easy for a boy named Sue

Well

I grew up quick

And I grew up mean

My fists got hard

And my wits got keen

I'd roam from town to town

To hide my shame

But I made me a vow

To the moon and stars

That I'd search the honky-tonks

And bars

And kill that man

Who gave me that awful name

Well

It was Gatlinburg

In mid-July

And I just hit town

And my throat was dry

I thought I'd stop

And have myself a brew

At an old saloon

On a street of mud

There at a table

Dealing stud

Sat the dirty mangy dog

That named me Sue

Well

I knew that snake

Was my own sweet dad

From a worn out picture

That my mother had

And I knew that scar on his cheek

And his evil eye

He was big and bent

And gray and old

And I looked at him

And my blood ran cold

And I said

My name is Sue

How do you do

Now you're gonna die

Well

I hit him hard

Right between the eyes

And he went down

But to my surprise

He come up with a knife

And cut off a piece of my ear

But I busted a chair

Right across his teeth

And we crashed through the wall

And into the street

Kickin’ and a gougin’

In the mud

And the blood

And the beer

I tell ya

I've fought tougher men

But I really can't remember when

He kicked like a mule

And he bit like a crocodile

I heard him laugh

And then I heard him cuss

He went for his gun

And I pulled mine first

He stood there lookin' at me

And I saw him smile

And he said

Son

This world is rough

And if a man's gonna make it

He's gotta be tough

And I knew I wouldn't be there

To help you along

So I give you that name

And I said goodbye

I knew you'd have to get tough or die

And it's the name that helped to make you strong

He said

Now you just fought one hell of a fight

And I know you hate me

And you got the right

To kill me now

And I wouldn't blame you

If you do

But you ought to thank me

Before I die

For the gravel in your guts

And the spit in your eye

'Cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch

That named you Sue

Yeah

What could I do

What could I do

I got all choked up

And I threw down my gun

And I called him my pa

And he called me his son

And I came away with a different

Point of view

And I think about him

Now and then

Every time I try

And every time I win

And if I ever have a son

I think I'm gonna name him

Bill

Or George

Anything but Sue

I still hate that name

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