NAVIGATING SOME INTERESTING LIFE-SEAS: "UNKNOWN KNOWNS" & BIBLICAL REVELATION

NAVIGATING SOME INTERESTING LIFE-SEAS: "UNKNOWN KNOWNS" & BIBLICAL REVELATION



The secular influences, so dominant, in our time give us little choice than to accept a growing isolation and further estrangement from this world... all to be expected, really. Dr. Francis Schaeffer - of years past - warned - few listened.



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40 Days, 40 Years or 40 Seasons - the Buffets Unique Journey

THE BUFFET'S 40 SEASONS

 by Dr. Marc S. Blackwell Sr.

Howard, Warren and their Grandson "HWB" tackle the problem of "food insecurity" by setting-out to empower an army of poor farmers to feed the world. The book will give you forty stories to encourage you to focus on taking forty years of your own. The book suggests some new "chances" to rethink your own degree of optimism amidst a world that seems preoccupied with the negative in this troubled world.  (SEE: Buffet, G. Howard, Forty Chances, Finding Hope in a Hungry World, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2013)

Most remember Pastor Rick Warren who dazelled much of Christianity with his "40 days" and now we have another 'Warren' and his Son, Howard G. (The Buffets) who are busy sharing their ideas of facing one of this world's greatest challenges ...  serious  Food Insecurity.

The Book "40 Chances" sets-out to share their motivation and thinking for accomplishing their goal of using 3 Billion Dollars for the good of 3 Billion needy people. Howard Buffet believes a lesson he learned from farming is the path to take.

All farmers, according to him, can plan to have about 40 seasons to grow and improve on their crops and their productivity. The Buffets with Grandson "HWB," in tow, are committed to use the own 40 productive years in a unique journey ... a philanthropic "trek" to discover and include new approaches to ease the

The Buffet plan actually came from a speaker who came to their central Illinois farm town to teach a farming course... The essence of his opening motivational thoughts were that we should not focus on the day to day tasks and the month to month processes or even the year to year cycle of work but rather to look to farming from the first time you climbed into the tractor and the day you hand your acreage over to your son or daughter. Even with good health you can probably only expect about 40 seasons to plant your crop and to adjust to the challenges along the way and "hope for the best.  It is enough time to learn to do well. But it's not forever."

Then, the speaker explained the goal was to help these farmers to use these remaining "chances" or seasons to the best of their ability ...using the best tools, best advice on using them... so you can make the most of the time you have left... 

"Forty doesn't seem like a bunch!" -- Buffett thought: "There is no time to waste. I started thinking a little different about farming, but I also realized that this idea applied to a lot more than farming."

Paul the Apostle, under the direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote Timothy saying "The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops. Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things." (2 Tim. 2:6-7).

Paul also advised the Ephesians church... "Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. 15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. (Eph. 5:15-17)

What two primary lessons do you see in Paul's counsel to each one of us? I'd be interested to open some dialogue. I wonder, even if we understand these things, if our children understand? 

How much time (or how many seasons) do you seriously imagine that you might have?  

James 3:13 "Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom." 

James 4:13 "Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin." nkjv

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