Because I Said...

Today is Saturday the beginning of Labor Day weekend. Friday is really the beginning since we had Friday off as well. Big Fuzzy and his crew of little fuzzies came over Friday and helped with picking up hay. That reminds me of the first year our youngest son was working away from home for a neighbor. Friday afternoon he told his boss he'd see him on Monday. This might have taken his boss by surprise, but his boss was never one to turn down a laborer even if he did have to pay him for it. Young Fuzzy showed up and it was just the two of them taking out a wall.

We don't sit around doing nothing easily. Even on holidays farmers have chores to do.

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Society used to have standards and that kept people in line—or it didn't. In prosperous times folks tend to be more lax in their morality and dress codes reflect that tendency. As a Christian my life code should mirror my faith in God/Christ and not fluctuate with the fashion frenzies of the world.

In one location we lived close to an Amish community. Their way of dress is noticeable compared to the rest of the world from the women's bonnets to their shoes. The interesting thing is there were some—at least one family in particular that was leaving the faith. They still had most of the outside, but bit by bit it was being replaced and some of it was reflected in a difference in attitude as well.

The question is, who sets your standards? Are those standards something to be not just proud of, but standards that the future can set their morals by? Do they reflect a faith in God and call attention to Him rather than self? The world can see where your faith is by many factors including this one.

James 1:

"5) If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6) But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7) For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8) A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 9) Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 10) But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11) For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways."