Silly Points of Note

Update & Pictures of Silver

Update

I want to thank everyone that has encouraged me by reading, commenting, voting and just doing what wattpad is great for. It would have been tough to set a target and come to the conclusion without your contributions.

God willing, I will be publishing the full book Silly Points of Note this week on smashwords.com.

About 10 has been published here (probably publish one or two more). Some of the titles that will be included in the complete smashwords title includes:

Between Faith and Ziklag

God Walk Adam

My Suspicions About Us

The First Skyscraper

The Blessings in A Relationship

and others

Once again, thanks for making me part of your day.

PICTURES OF SILVER

"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver" Proverbs 25:11

The scripture is both a canvass and a painting. Everybody is in this painting and you can find yourself if you look sincerely. Can we play a game of find yourself in the picture? It is an interesting game to play.

How it's Played

We are going to take portion of scripture and you must do the task of finding yourself in that portion of scripture. The uncanny here is that the Word of God is likened to a mirror. That is, there is no way you will not find a reflection of you or just where you stand in the light of any scripture that is put up in your face. The beauty therefore of this game is that it is almost impossible not to find yourself as you strike a pose on the painting that is the word of God.

First Picture

Oh, another thing I must say in this game is to warn you that we will be taking a walk on the "dark" side of scripture. We will get to know why this is the core of the game after we are done with playing it.

"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone..." Revelations 21:18

Okay, this is the first scripture painting we are looking at, and following what we said earlier, there is a picture of you within the painting that is the scripture above. You will have to do the task of finding you in this painting and as long as you are sincere about it, you will find you.

Eight (8) different sets of people were mentioned in this portion of scripture, which one are you? For the really sincere, they might get to find out that they are in more than one set mentioned here. You must also include the fact that these set of descriptions applies both physically i.e. to those that literarily do what the scripture has just mentioned and to those that do it spiritually or subconsciously. For instance, we know the Law says you shall not commit adultery but Jesus went on to say that lusting after your neighbor's spouse translates to mean that you have committed adultery.

Again, one Apostle declared that if you hate your brother then you are also a murderer. So discovering yourself in the picture that has been framed above is a combination of sincerity and knowledge.

Let us looks at another scripture. Remember the game here is to find yourself and not someone else. We are going to do something with the picture we want to place on the wall right here. Look at Deuteronomy 28.

The first thing you will notice of this chapter is that it talks about both the blessings and the curses that would happen to the children of Israel for either abiding by the Law or going against it. Now you will have to do this if you want to play this game of finding yourself in the picture of the Word; go through the curses and see if you would find anything there that is already happening to you as a person.

Why Going Through the Dark Side

We have to look at one more portion of scripture and see how it can help us to explain this.

"And say, if we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets" Matthew 23:30

This was Jesus talking and He was concerned about what the Pharisees and scribes were saying as they built tombs for the prophets of old and helped to take care of them. The issue here is not what Jesus later said of them but the fact that they assumed that they would not have taken part in the killing of the prophets.

Bear in mind that we are still talking about how the word creates pictures and we are inadvertently part of the portrait it creates. We can see ourselves there but a sad reality is that like the scribes and Pharisees, we tend to assume that we will always be found doing good or with the good in spite of the fact that we might just be part of the ugly side of the painting. Just look at the first scripture we looked at (the one about those that will not be part of God's new Kingdom). We might find ourselves there but it will really take the sincere and the person that wants to reach out to God to admit that he or she is part of the 8 set of people described in that scripture.

The Pharisees simply assumed that they will not have been part of those that killed the prophet and this is in the face of how they were treating Christ or anybody that seemed to stand for the truth. There are some who only read the first few verses of Deuteronomy 28 (the blessing part) and ignore the rest, which is in the majority simply because it only talks about curses and they assume that they cannot not be part of the curses. Meanwhile, those very curses are actually operating in their lives.

There is no one that cannot be found in scripture; but it will take the person that is willing to be exposed raw and find healing to accept that they will not always be found in the part that talks about beauty, light and joy. They are inadvertently denying the power in the word to heal and to deliver and this is really a path of self-deceit.

So let us go back to the game but you will have to continue playing on your own because that it when it can be most effective.

"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver" Proverbs 25:11