Shadetree

27           SHADETREE          

There are many things that are needed and are called for because of its specific nature and need… People as well that go through school, college and special training to their specific fields to meet specific need…

There was a time at least back in the day of what we knew and often even noted of ourselves and others as “shade tree mechanics…” Meaning that while this wasn’t our particular field of labor and living or even to our training we got by in repairs that the broke down car demanded… Therefore, up under “the shade tree” the repair of the family car was done…

There is a term of description that perhaps may yet too, be still in use… Perhaps you have heard it… One called “a jack of all trades and master of none…” Meaning that there was no special training outside of working and doing and by experience taught themselves the particulars to the multiple demands of each trade…

It is of course today with the ever-changing times that without a doubt has increased the demands of certain trades… Licensing, insurances, hours on the job, hours of training and continual schooling in keeping up with the ever growing and increasing technology… This and more just to meet the certification necessary to do the job…

We understand when it comes to root canals not any so called “shade tree” type of dentist gets to do the job… The family car isn’t going down to the guy with the car pulled up under the shade tree… Were not taking the family member in need of a heart surgeon to the guy who said he would be glad to do it and save you a little money… “Yes sir, just come out back to the shed behind the house where we can perform the necessary lifesaving operation…” No thanks!!!

When it comes to specifics and qualifications necessary I think we can say “we don’t want a shade tree doctor” doing a valve replacement for our loved one… I think sometimes life does call for the “specialist,” the one who isn’t a “jack of all trades…” NO doubt, they that have given themselves to study and have completed the rigors of hours demanded to be certified is the one that performs the surgery needed…

·        What about the preacher of the word of GOD to you and for your family’s salvation???

·        Do you even have a pastor??? Or is it some person that comes across your television screen that doesn’t even know you or your family???

·        What about the matters of your soul???

·        What about our eternal destination???

We certainly don’t mind driving and flying across the country and even in some cases seeking knowledge and treatment out of the country for a chance at health… Yet, when it comes to our soul it is of little concern to some of us… Is this not what Paul was saying when in comparing the physical body to that of the spiritual???

1 Tim 4:8 Physical exercise has some value, but spiritual exercise is much more important, for it promises a reward in both this life and the next.

This ought to be our answer and yet, how error is so much alive today… Satan’s deception to get us to demean or ignore that which should be the greatest of importance… How easy it is for some to believe anything and anybody rather than seek out the word of GOD and the one who specializes in HIS word… How sad that some can give themselves to traditions of men and a word derived by man and from man rather than the word of GOD…

We seek out the specialist for this and that… We take confidence in our barber, our mechanic, our doctor, dentist, our plumber, roofer, the engineer, and so on… Yet, the word of GOD is absent and unheeded in our lives as no word from the LORD is sought… Yet, GOD has anointed a preacher and he stands against the devil and he preaches the truth of what is holy, what is righteous, and what is sin…

Hear the preacher…

Eccl 12:8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.    KJV

Hear the preacher…

Eccl 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.      KJV

 

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