Deeper Furrow

  Where The Argument Is      It is harvest time in western Iowa.   I can tell because the combines run into the night with their lights shining onto my windshield.   Cyclic dust is spewed from the machines’ tails.   An autumn breeze brings the low hanging dust from the valley.   Sudden car lights confront me appearing from the manmade fog.   Bumpers are not the only ones to threaten my path.   Deer, forced from their lodgings, seek an exodus from the harvester’s hum.   A desolate ditch ejects them onto the blacktop since it provides no cover.   Caught in my lights, their hooves scrape desperately to find traction.      “Deer!”   I jolt everyone awake by stomping on the brakes.   In a flash my opponent ducks recedingly nearer the ditch.   Another near miss.   “A buck!   Hey, help me watch out for deer.”   Other passengers agree with mounted vision.   But, where do w...

  The Universal Wrench      A new franchise, with its doors open on the first day.   “Open” sign hangs in the front window.   Some shoppers pass by in wonderment.   Some are curious about the front window display.   Some venture in to look around.   The shoppers have made their choices.   How near they draw to the merchandise is up to them.   Only those who enter through the door can partake.      Did the store discriminate?   Were there other signs in its front window?   “Whites only” “Cash sales, no credit cards accepted” “All sales final” If other signs accompanied the grand opening, then we could say the invitation was restricted.      Nails pierced Christ’s hands to the wood.   His immense pain commanded Him to contract, but the spikes laid Him out to expose Him fully.      I have a grandson who is curious about trapping.   Recently I b...

  A Stiff Drink Hebrews 11:13  “ These all died in faith, not having received the promises , but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. ” Ephesians 1: 9  “ Having made known unto us the mystery of his will , according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:   10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: ” Joel 2:28  “ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh ; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: ” Acts 1:8  “ But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you : and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the utterm...

  Welcome!      Lily Mae.   You arrived today at 1:30 a.m.   A hectic hospital run you did not make for your parents wanted you at home.   In that pioneering spirit, they teach you independence.   Living off the grid is in their hearts so I warn you.   Y our future chore may be to clean the goats’ pen!   That grain embedded in your parents extends out to the branches.   If the trunk defies a worldly pull and lifts you high, then much will be expected.      You have the responsibility to manifest your influences.   Sap rises from beneath and flows through your veins.    You are indeed one with something greater.   Grandparents on both sides have combined to feed the trunk ensuring its strength.   A further reach has gathered goodness from previous generations.      You are no mistake.   God in His right mind grants blessing.   As a branch from a mig...

  Fire And Ice 1 Thessalonians 5:19  “ Quench not the Spirit. ” Acts 2: 3  “ And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4  And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues , as the Spirit gave them utterance. ” 1 Corinthians 14:33  “ For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. ”      Stop and go!   (and stop).   The Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles back in 1906, began the Pentecostal Movement which ignited in America and swept across the world according to Google.   I don’t know.   I wasn’t there.   But I speak in tongues today.   I thought that was just the norm.      Light ‘em up and watch them spin!   Come to church and we need a rush to assure us that God is real.   Someone needs to prophesy.   A new message while Wonda dances about the...

  And There Are Brothers Hebrews 1:7  “ And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits , and his ministers a flame of fire. ” Colossians 2:18  “ Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, ” Judges 13:20  “ For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the  Lord  ascended in the flame of the altar . And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.” Genesis 18:2  “ And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him : and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, ”       I will not write out of authority here for I have little experience.   I can share what I can and it is not in length of angels and their ministry to us. ...

  Salient Savior Colossians 1:18  “ And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence . ”      Who are we messing with here?   Whose name do we kick around on a Sunday morning?   “In Your name we pray…”   Really?   Jesus this, Jesus that.   Our little Jesus we have in a box.   Let it burn our lips even to pronounce the Name!   And yet His mercy flows forth from His throne like water extinguishing what wrath could threaten. Revelation 1:15  “ And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. ” Exodus 20:19  “ And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die . ”      Our little Jesus throws a voice that curdles our blood and raises the hair on the back of our necks.  ...