Possums And Patience

Possums And Patience

James 1:22

James 1:22 “But be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.“ You folks out there that read my devotions are putting me in a very interesting place. I pray for the words that I need to write and by doing that the Lord places on my heart what you need for the day. This morning all I can think about are possums and patience. I guess someone out there needs patience, or are waiting for something, and others are acting like old possums. Possums are those cute little critters that scavenge around the garbage cans looking for those delectable morsels of joy. They stink too. I was climbing a tree on Pigeon Mountain in a effort to exercise my manly instinct of deer hunting. As I was climbing, I started smelling the absolute worse smell. I stopped and looked around for flying buzzards over something dead, but nothing was there. As climbed a little further, the stink got worse. I stopped and looked at my boots to see if I had picked up a unwanted traveler, but nothing there. I finally climbed as far as my nose would let me when I decided that I just had to leave. I heard a low growling noise just above my head. I looked up into the face of one of those cute growling critters as he stunk like a skunk and bore his teeth at me. Now I know that you’ve heard people talking about grinning like a possum, but I promise you, this one never heard that phrase before. Then the excitement began!!! It was better than any story Jerry Clower has ever told. It was go ahead and shoot up here amongst us, one of us has to have some relief. That crazy thing would growl and snap, then when I’d try to khatoon it, it would act like it was dead. I’d turn my back to it and try to climb a little further down the tree and it would come back to life all growling and snarling. This continued on until I gave the demoniac that tree. Crazy things!! Growl and snarl until you approach them, then they fall down like there dead and can’t move a bit. Can’t turn your back to them either, they’ll sneak up on you. I guess you could say they call to mind a possum Christian. A possum Christian is a big theological word taught in the world’s best of seminaries that describes someone who is alive and well, has the ability to snarl and growl about anything, approaches visitors with baring teeth, can’t turn your back to them and will stand their ground until you approach them and ask them to do something. They look at you real funny, then just faint and hit the floor. It happens too if you ask them to give a little extra for missions or such. You all pray for me because I just caused an uproar in the greatest of theological Church members. The Bible tells us that we have the ability to listen to God’s Word and then discount it. That means to never put it or ourselves to work. The fields are ripe for harvest, but no one is going to the fields. We need workers and we need givers, not snarlers, growlers or fainters. Workers and givers are those folks that know they will be blessed just by the opportunity of serving the Lord. Christmas is approaching soon and I challenge you all to do a little something extra for the Kingdom this year. Give food, time, money or friendship to those that need it most. Those that don’t know the joy of the Lord. Well, there’s the possum story so I guess tomorrow will be about patience or waiting. Waiting is a lonely place and patience is something we all have to have. See you tomorrow! Love you all and thanks for reading…….Pastor Brion