As soon as I was able to get a job, I did. My
first job was with Thorn's Supermarket in St. Marys, WV. I always
enjoyed store work. Even during my high school years and first
part of college, I worked in a grocery store.
As soon as I was able to get a job, I did. My
first job was with Thorn's Supermarket in St. Marys, WV. I always
enjoyed store work. Even during my high school years and first
part of college, I worked in a grocery store.
While working in the store, we had a period when
we would take inventory of the stock. That was a most tedious
job because we had to count every single item in the store for
accuracy. We did not have the devices for counting that are available
now.
During inventory, we might have thought to just
pass over part of the inventory to get finished sooner.
How many times have we been reading a certain
Scripture and think, "I've read this before," and maybe
just skip over it? We continue to read God's Word as though those
portions that we have read before are not that important, anymore.
What we need to do is to read as though we have never read it
before.
Recently, I came across a verse in Psalm 119:37
which reads, "Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless
things, and revive me in Your way." How many of us look
at "worthless things?" This is not so when reading
Scripture and taking inventory of the things that we need to change
and improve upon.
We need to take inventory of the good side as
well as the bad side of our lives. Inventory in the store included
all the good as well as the bad. There were many times, when taking
inventory, that I put my hand into a rotten potato. Kind of smelly,
too. Our lives are not always what they ought to be, but, by our
taking inventory, we can make the necessary adjustments to please
our Heavenly Father. "Examine yourselves as to whether
you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves,
that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed you are disqualified."
(2 Corinthians 13:5)
Paul had a marvelous view of life: "But
what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.
Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of
the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered
the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may
gain Christ ..." (Philippians 3:7, 8)
Why not take "spiritual" inventory of
your life and see if it measures up? Do it now, before it is too
late. -1227 20th St., Parkersburg, WV 26101. eddie@northendchurch.com