Waking to the smell of bacon

That’s what my friends did this morning. Well, I guess they didn’t wake to the smell of it, but they sure did shower and get ready by it! It was a good breakfast. We had bacon, scrambled eggs, banana bread, juice and milk. Just so you know, I’m not bragging because I enjoyed it! I was glad to help my friends out. We had a good, although short, time talking last night when they got in. I took off right after Big Deal to get stuff ready and had time to start dishes, warm their sheets in the dryer, watch a little baseball (How ‘bout them Bo-Sox?!?) and talk to Laura. It was fun and they got on their way this morning.
Big Deal went well last night. I felt pretty good about my preparation going into it and we had a good turnout besides the band kids being elsewhere. We brought back an old fave last night with “Would you rather…?” It’s always fun and interesting getting their answers to the questions the book asks. They seem to be connecting with what we’re doing and thinking a lot about what we’re talking about. I hope it keeps up because they’re a good group and getting better. There’s my shameless plug for the youth group.

Proverbs 21:4 says, “Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.” Let’s deal with this in two parts. The first part is about the eyes and the heart of the wicked. This is a pretty easy one to see. Both these have to do with pride, its actions and attitudes. Have you ever seen someone “look down their nose” at someone? I see this a lot in Jr. High and High school girls (sorry, ladies!). Someone with a pretty high view of themselves and the attention to go with it will look at a ‘lesser’ person, especially female, this way. They’ll flip their pretty hair, tilt their head back and a little to the side, look at them with piercing eyes and either smirk or glare, pending on the effect they are going for. Girls are brutal! In other translations, the “haughty eye” here is also rendered a “high look”, which I just described to you. The attitude is how that person feels about themselves compared to others. This isn’t just a girl thing, you see. It’s an everybody thing. Now the second part deals with the lamp of the wicked. “Huh?” Ok, the lamp is used to describe a man’s life, as in when someone is destroyed, his lamp is snuffed out. Ok? It also carries with it the connotation of prosperity in one’s life, which effects that person’s joy, ambition, and actions. It is these things that are sin as well! All this person’s actions, motives, and attitudes, whatever he/she does, are sin because they are done out of their wickedness. Living by God’s word keeps us away from wickedness, pride, and sin, and allows us to be the kind of people that are described as “wise”.

Oct. 30-Rake-n-Run 3:00, People of Prayer 6:00
Oct. 31-Youth Sunday

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