Hi Phil,
The passage in Matthew is really talking about worrying, not trusting God
etc.
    I know a preacher who was making a joke by saying, the son of man cometh
in an hour when you think not.  So let's not think.
Phil, I have come to the conclusion that many of us who are blind, I won't
speak about the sighted world--are so media-dependant, that we let the media
tell us what to do, how to think about certain issues, what to buy etc.  We
have been programmed by music, news commercials and time spent in a
vegatative state, letting the media float over us.Just my oppinion and
observation.
Vinny
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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:58 PM
Subject: 93 percent are non thinkers


>I was talking to a pastor after church one Sunday many years ago.  He was
>an
> older man and his son was the pastor of the church.  He, the older pastor,
> told me he had been reading an article that really bothered him.  I asked
> him about it and he said, Well, the article says that 98 percent of all
> the
> people in America don't think for themselves.  I laughed and said, That's
> not what bothers me, Brother.  He said, what's that? he wanted to know.  I
> replied, It is what the other 2 percent are thinking and I said, I'm
> pretty
> sure I know what that is.  He asked me what they were thinking.  I said,
> They are thinking of ways of keeping the other 98 percent of people from
> thinking.
>
> Here are some sobering thoughts to think.
>
> Proverbs 23 six through eight.
> 6  Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire
> thou
> his dainty meats:
> 7  For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to
> thee; but his heart is not with thee.
> 8  The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy
> sweet
> words.
>
> This next passage is longer but worth reading and re reading.
>
> Matthew 6 verses 24 through 34
> 24  No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and
> love
> the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye
> cannot
> serve God and mammon.
> 25  Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall
> eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.
> Is
> not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
> 26  Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap,
> nor
> gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much
> better than they?
> 27  Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
> 28  And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field,
> how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
> 29  And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not
> arrayed like one of these.
> 30  Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is,
> and
> to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye
> of
> little faith?
> 31  Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall
> we
> drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
> 32  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly
> Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
> 33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all
> these things shall be added unto you.
> 34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take
> thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
> thereof.
>
>
>
>
> Victory isn't something you have, it is something you are.
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