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The Mall --- T.V. Unknown
The Mall and T.V. The shopping mall Is a place with all types of needs and commodities for man. It also is a place where all types of people go dressed ungodly and to reveal the flesh and to draw the lust of man or attention of him toward their person, dressing sensual and revealing. If a person with weakness and faults, and has a weakness of lust within their heart, ... they can go to a shopping mall and buy the products for their needs, because there is nothing wrong with the shopping malls. But if their not careful, they can become engulfed with the scenery. The heart is Deep, and desperately wicked, who can know it. But when they go for every small need just because they see much to satisfy the flesh, maybe not realizing it, they can have great spiritual battles because of it. The flesh wants to be gratified, and If we don’t stay away from those things that draw us into the flesh, or weakness of my flesh they will cause me to fall away from God. Next thing ya know their always going to the mall for everything they need because the flesh is eating from the table of the devil. The TV is the same way. It is got many different things within it’s tube. But the world is not ministering to the Spiritual man, It’s concentrated upon feeding the lust and appetite of the flesh. When people have weaknesses within their heart, the TV will, somewhere, feed that desire if you watch enough of it. Some are stronger than others and can stay away from their weakness, but some are not and are enticed daily within their hearts, only to let go someday. If they spend enough time in front of temptation, it will eventually win.
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Great Story Unknown
Great Story
A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to
choose a successor to take over the business.
Instead of choosing one of his directors or his children, he decided
to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together. He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you. "The young executives were
shocked, but the boss continued." I am going to give each one of you
a SEED today - one very special SEED. I want you to plant the seed,
water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have
grown from the seed I have given you. I will then judge the plants
that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO."
One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others,
received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story.
She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed.
Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After
about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about
their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. Jim kept
checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five
weeks went by, still nothing.
By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a
plant and he felt like a failure.
Six months went by--still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he had
killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had
nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however. He just
kept watering and fertilizing the soil. He so wanted the seed to grow.
A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company
brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife
that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest
about what happened.
Jim felt sick at his stomach, it was going to be the most
embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He
took his empty pot to the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed
at the variety of plants grown by the other executives. They were
beautiful--in all shapes and sizes.
Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues
laughed, a few felt sorry for him!
When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young
executives.
Jim just tried to hide in the back. "My, what great plants, trees,
and flowers you have grown," said the CEO. "Today one of you will be
appointed the next CEO!" All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the
back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered the financial
director to bring him to the front. Jim was terrified. He thought,
"The CEO knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!"
When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his
seed. Jim told him the story The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive! His name is Jim!" Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow his seed. How could he be the new CEO the others said?
Then the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room
a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it
back to me today.
But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not possible
for them to grow. All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and
plants and flowers.
When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another
seed for the one I gave you.
Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot
with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new
Chief Executive!"
If you plant honesty, you will reap trust If you plant goodness, you
will reap friends If you plant humility, you will reap greatness If
you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment If you plant
consideration, you will reap perspective If you plant hard work, you
will reap success If you plant forgiveness, you will reap
reconciliation If you plant faith in your Higher Power, you will reap
a harvest So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what
you will reap later.
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