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“THINKABOUTIT” THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Wednesday;  February 13, 2008

 

          I was one of the fortunate ones, I got used to wearing glasses early in my life.  I believe it was in the third grade when I started wearing specs and have been paying optometrist’s bills ever sense.  Being a child with a pair of glasses, I was one of the several who grew up hearing, “How in the world can you see anything out of those filthy things.”.  As a child, dirt and grime on clothes or glasses, were no big deal – you just adapted and went on.

          Have you ever seen someone who did something blatantly evil and you wondered, “How could they do that?” only to have them follow up with some kind of logic that, even as flawed as is was, made the action okay to them?  In their own way, their conscience allowed them to see things though “dirty glasses” and, by adapting to that way of rationale, they felt okay about what they did.

          Let’s remember that a clean conscience may be an admirable goal; but, there is something even more important.  The Bible reminds us, “All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight, but the Lord weighs the motives.”  (Proverbs 16:2)

          Think about it!  For the Madison Avenue Church of Christ; this is Charlie Wharton.

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