Last night I thought I would be nice to the wife and offered to take care of dinner for the family. She was slightly disappointed that she was not going to get to cook but took me up on the offer. So I loaded the family into the ole family wagon and took everyone to one of our 10,000 restaurants we have in this city. Now the reason I chose this particular one is because on Thursdays, kids get to eat for 99 cents, and when you have three hungry boys to feed, that’s a deal! Now I do not want to get off on a soapbox here but…
I was rather disappointed when I left this place of business last night. As we entered the establishment we were greeted with a warm and friendly welcome from a slightly attractive young lady and that is where the good part of our experience ended. After being shown to our table we waited for SEVERAL minutes until finally a manager came over and asked if she could take our drink order, which at that time we had already decided on what we wanted to eat and informed her that we wanted to order food as well. Taken by surprise, she hesitated and then decided to go ahead and take our food and drink order. A few minutes later our server finally arrived and delivered our drinks and informed us that our orders had been placed. Eventually our food arrived, delivered by our server, which was a good thing because we needed refills on our drinks so she took care of that. As we were eating our dinner, our server checked on us once. We all finished our dinner and was chatting with each other and after several minutes we decided we were ready to depart and realized we had not seen our server in quite a long time. After waiting several more minutes we finally flagged down another server and asked if he could find our server so that we could get our check and pay. Shortly she arrived and put the check on the table at which point I handed her my credit card. She promptly returned with my card and tickets to sign which I did leaving absolutely NO tip! Now I usually will leave a tip of some amount after getting poor service if the food is good, but however the food at this place is not all that great and the only reason we go is because it is cheap and can get halfway decent service usually by an attractive young lady.
I am not going to say that service is always bad at all places, but there is a decline in the quality of service in the “service” industry. Now I can complain about this because I work in the service industry and have for a long time, I have also worked in the food industry both fast food and sit down type restaurants and I know the standards we were held to several years ago as far as quality and promptness of service and it is just not there these days especially among the high school, college age generation and I fear that it is going to decline even more if we are not careful. It seems kids these days just want a check and heaven forbid if you ask them to work for it. Moms and dads just hand over to their kids any and everything they want and do not instill the sense of responsibility that goes with earning what you have and taking pride in what you do.
Take a look around and think back into history, each generation gets lazier and lazier and it is because we let them sit around the house and play on the gameboy or computer and do not make then get out and do anything anymore. Face it, what would your kids reaction be if you slapped an eight foot sack on their shoulder and told them to pick a row of cotton, for that what would your reaction be if someone handed you a cotton sack and pointed the way to the cotton field. Our great-grandparents were not too good to do it so why are you? Have you seen the movie Wall-E? We laugh and think that is a cute kiddie movie but that is where we are headed if we are not careful. But come to think of it, they did get good service. However that is just my opinion, you can take it and 99 cents and go order off the dollar menu at McDonald’s, if you can get someone to take your order. Just don’t ask for fries, that is another 5 minutes.
Quote of the day:
I think I may have used this before but I am going to use it again because it fits with our topic of discussion.
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks too much like work”. – Thomas Edison. Boy wouldn’t he like to take a look around today!
Well friends, I am quickly running out of time so we are going to wrap this up the right way.
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That is it, I am running out of time, have a wonderful day and weekend, and God bless!
Saturday, April 10, 2010
March 30 Wake Up Call - Foundations
In these 3 chapters Christ starts out by proclaiming blessings or beatitudes, after that he lays out some very basic principles for us to live our lives by, there is also the golden rule as we call it, a description of what judgment will be like and then at the end he makes a very point blank and powerful statement.
Matthew 7:24-28
Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will compare him to a wise man, which built his house on a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and does not fall because it was built upon a rock. And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, shall be like a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
I find it interesting that Christ used the analogy of building a house. I am going to take a guess and say it is because he was trained as a carpenter when he was a boy. If you will notice with me, the key factor in the two houses he talks about is the foundation. If you will think with me this is not the only time he used construction terms in making his point. In Matthew the 16th chapter while talking to his apostles he stated he was going to “build” his church and talked about the foundation of the church and that it would be built upon a rock. Now I am no Greek scholar but I have been told the Greek word used by Christ to describe the foundation the church was to be build on is the word “petros” meaning a boulder or bedrock. So Christ saw the importance in building on a solid and firm foundation.
For the next few minutes I want to think of some reasons why it is important for us to build our lives on the teachings and the gospel of Christ. As I mentioned a moment ago, if one will take the principles found in Matthew 5, 6, and 7 and apply them to their life, Christ compares this person to a man who would builds his house on a rock. The wind, rain and floods Christ talks about represents the trials, persecutions, and various issues we are faced with in our lives, and if we have our lives built on a rock, then as the house that was built on a rock, it will not fall.
So why is this important? Well, most usually end up finding themselves a spouse. If I am trying to build my personal life on a firm foundation chances are I am going to find someone who is trying to build their life on a firm foundation. Then after a while we as married couples usually have a child or two or three and we instill our values and beliefs, or at least try to, into our children which in turn creates a spiritual or Christian home, which the Apostle Paul talks about in Ephesians 5 and 6.
Last if you have a Christian person or individual who finds a mate who is a Christian and raises their children in a Christian home and you put several of these homes together with the purpose of worshiping and praising God, then you will have the strong and faithful church build on a solid foundation that Christ talks about in Matthew 16. Every day I try to better myself so I can better my family and hopefully encourage and support the people I worship with every week. We can not make it in this world alone, we need help and I can think of no better way to find the strength and encouragement I need to keep going than worshiping with my fellow brothers and sisters every week.
I hope you have found these thoughts to be encouraging and uplifting.
On a personal note before I close, I have a very special and dear friend who is dealing with some issues right now so I would like to solicit your prayers for this person. For the privacy of this person, I am not going to give their name but if you will pray for “Mike’s friend” I think God will know who you are praying for.
Thanks for watching today, I sincerely hope you have enjoyed the program, have a wonderful day and God bless.
Matthew 7:24-28
Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will compare him to a wise man, which built his house on a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and does not fall because it was built upon a rock. And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, shall be like a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
I find it interesting that Christ used the analogy of building a house. I am going to take a guess and say it is because he was trained as a carpenter when he was a boy. If you will notice with me, the key factor in the two houses he talks about is the foundation. If you will think with me this is not the only time he used construction terms in making his point. In Matthew the 16th chapter while talking to his apostles he stated he was going to “build” his church and talked about the foundation of the church and that it would be built upon a rock. Now I am no Greek scholar but I have been told the Greek word used by Christ to describe the foundation the church was to be build on is the word “petros” meaning a boulder or bedrock. So Christ saw the importance in building on a solid and firm foundation.
For the next few minutes I want to think of some reasons why it is important for us to build our lives on the teachings and the gospel of Christ. As I mentioned a moment ago, if one will take the principles found in Matthew 5, 6, and 7 and apply them to their life, Christ compares this person to a man who would builds his house on a rock. The wind, rain and floods Christ talks about represents the trials, persecutions, and various issues we are faced with in our lives, and if we have our lives built on a rock, then as the house that was built on a rock, it will not fall.
So why is this important? Well, most usually end up finding themselves a spouse. If I am trying to build my personal life on a firm foundation chances are I am going to find someone who is trying to build their life on a firm foundation. Then after a while we as married couples usually have a child or two or three and we instill our values and beliefs, or at least try to, into our children which in turn creates a spiritual or Christian home, which the Apostle Paul talks about in Ephesians 5 and 6.
Last if you have a Christian person or individual who finds a mate who is a Christian and raises their children in a Christian home and you put several of these homes together with the purpose of worshiping and praising God, then you will have the strong and faithful church build on a solid foundation that Christ talks about in Matthew 16. Every day I try to better myself so I can better my family and hopefully encourage and support the people I worship with every week. We can not make it in this world alone, we need help and I can think of no better way to find the strength and encouragement I need to keep going than worshiping with my fellow brothers and sisters every week.
I hope you have found these thoughts to be encouraging and uplifting.
On a personal note before I close, I have a very special and dear friend who is dealing with some issues right now so I would like to solicit your prayers for this person. For the privacy of this person, I am not going to give their name but if you will pray for “Mike’s friend” I think God will know who you are praying for.
Thanks for watching today, I sincerely hope you have enjoyed the program, have a wonderful day and God bless.
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