I'm pretty frustrated today.I made a decision at work and my boss put the brakes on it. When I spoke to him yesterday I couldn't convince him that my course of action was right so I decided that I would put some figures together and convince him by showing him the numbers... no good. I started explaining the numbers and he tossed it on his desk and said "you don't need to explain it any further I know it's less money"
Now you might say, "It sounds like he was convinced" If you said that you'd be wrong. He basically said it doesn't matter that it would save us 21k the answer's still no.
Add to that frustration that someone really close to me recently asked me for my opinion on something and basically ignored my advice.
So this got me to thinking, is this the reason for the maxim "do not cast your pearls before swine"? Then the very next words I thought were "Am I the swine?" Jesus' commandments are in the Word in black and white. Am I listening? Am I following His guidance? I wonder how He feels when we look into the light of His Word and forget what we read?
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. - James 1:23-25
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. - Psalm 119:105
4 comments:
so ur saying that if we are given these "pearls" from God and don't put them into practice we have then become the swine, right?
Too bad ur boss isn't a Christian, you could show him this. Although even if he was, I don't know if he'd be that keen on u calling him a SWINE. haha
Yes, but I actually don't know who Jesus is referring to as swine I assume people who "draw near to Him with their mouths but their hearts are far from Him"
and... for the record I'm definitely not calling my boss a "swine". He was an unreceptive audience but he's clearly fully human.
Good one.
"Lest they turn again and rend you"...
turning the pointing finger around is never comfortable but it's usually an excellent lesson.
Crap, now you've got me all thinky.
I wonder what that means "lest they turn again and rend you"?
LOL "thinky", just to warn you... next post could be about chaos theory. Or it could be something completely different. I'm trying to decide if there should be any order to it or should it be completely random?
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