The Pot and the Wooden Spoon

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     First Corinthians 13:13 says, “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”

     Put a two year old on the kitchen floor with a pot and a wooden spoon and you won’t be able to hear anything else going on around you  To them, the louder the noise, the better.  One of  my very first Christmas gifts as a child was a peg board with a wooden hammer and a bag of different colored pegs.  I recall getting out  of bed in the wee hours of the morning and starting to pound the pegs into the peg board, making a lot of noise.  I guess it was too much as soon, my Father came in, took the board away and the hammer, put me in bed and turned out the light.  I assumed you couldn’t make noise when it was dark outside.

     The above passage is one of the most famous and perhaps, most used by the world, even the unsaved.  I have seen it on cross stitches.  In fact, I had one hanging near my bed and could see it every evenin when I went to bed.  This chapter is often referred to as the “love” chapter as it is mentioned in almost every verse.  When you come down to it, only you and God know what’s in your heart as far as motives that you and I have for doing what we do.  The Apostle Paul emphasizes that every work that is done is nothing more than a bunch of noise if there is no love present. There are no selfish motives present in the presence of this type of love.    Thee is just the simple act itself, perhaps done in secret. I am growing, hopefully in this area as I have an elderly lady  That is continually rattling my door knob.  I would often open the door and yell at her and ask her to please leave my doorknob alone.   the other day I just calmly went up open the door and ask her what she needed and she replied,  “ I just wanted to know if you would like to have a pair of tie-dyed tennis shoes.”   I said no thank you to that offer and she said okay and just walked off.  At the age of 84 I am still learning to love bitter here at the Assisted Living.   Praise God today that he is still working in our lives may we all be doing righteous acts to meet the needs of others.