The Plumbline

There is a cost to every action on our part - nothing really is free.  There are many advertisements for "free" stuff in this world, but if you have ever clicked on one of those offers on the computer, you know you are prompted to enter your email, cell phone number, or some other identifier.  When you do so, you are inundated with SPAM or junk mail galore.  The cost of the "free" stuff is really just more mess to deal with!  Sometimes the cost is just not worth it, right?  There is a "cost" to every luxury, but not all cost is known up front.  If you buy a new car, complete with all the bells and whistles, you may think you are riding in style until the first time the electronic gizmo fails to work. When you take it into the shop for the repair, you might just get a little sticker shock over the cost of the repair!  Those bells and whistles are nice, but ridiculously expensive to maintain!  So it is with things in our relationships with each oth...

Good guidance comes sometimes through the quietest voices.  If you have ever listened to the loudest voice, you might just have realized the loudest is not always the clearest!  It just got your attention!  As we have been studying our way through the Book of Proverbs over the past couple of days, we have discovered there is good advice which awaits those with hearing ears and a responsive heart - but it is not always the loudest voice we hear!  The instructions of a father's heart are of value to us in making us ready for what life sends our way.  We are reminded - follow them and you will live; learn from them, and you may not have to experience everything for yourself; love the, for wise words will guide us when times of trial come our way.   Dear friend, take my advice;   it will add years to your life.   I’m writing out clear directions to Wisdom Way,   I’m drawing a map to Righteous Road.   I don’t want you ending up in blind all...