Dogs & Doghouses

(I wrote this last summer, but it's still true).

The other day I was mowing the grass and I caught myself singing the opening lines for the theme of “F-Troop”. You may remember them as well. It starts out like this. “The end of the civil war was near when quite accidentally….” I can remember almost the entire song. Isn’t it amazing what the human mind has the capacity for? I haven’t seen an episode of “F-Troop” for at least 20 years, but I still remember the theme song.

I bring this up because of some sobering words that the prophet Hosea spoke to Israel (Hosea 4:1-7). He said that God’s people were, “…destroyed for lack of knowledge…” and because God’s people had rejected knowledge, that God would reject them. Destruction and rejection by God is the price of willful ignorance of His Word. Our nation, by and large, is very ignorant of what’s in the Bible and there is a price to pay for only knowing useless things. And we who say we believe in Jesus Christ are sometimes more worried about having things our way than we are concerned about having things the Bible way.

Please take some time this week to read and then think about some part of the Bible. Let it change your life.