Thought for the Week-The Force

Good Afternoon Girlfriends!!

I have some housekeeping things to attend to this week.  First of all, I'm so thankful and happy to be starting off another year with y'all!  Can I just tell you that?!  I also want to remind you that I am now available on TWITTER!  I know, super high-tech.  Don't worry if you're not totally on board with the whole Twitter-craze.  I wasn't either.  But, I've been strongly encouraged to tweet...so I am.  The only trouble is: almost no one is following me!  (Sad face)  So I thought to myself, Self, let's make it real easy for our girls to follow us on Twitter.  Voila!  https://twitter.com/#!/DallasLouis   Simply click on this link, and you will be directed to my Twitter homepage. Then it will look like lots of folks are following me!!  At least, that's how it's supposed to work!  Now, on with today's Thought...

A while back I received a phone call from one of my dearest friends.  I answered the phone, and instead of hearing Tracy's voice, I hear her wheezing for air.  I instantly became alarmed, thinking that there was something terribly wrong with her.  No.  There was nothing wrong with her.  She was laughing.  In fact, she was laughing so hard, she could not speak.  What was so funny?  Well, it seems that I am not the only one raising miniature Jedi Knights.  Nope.  She too, is bringing up a couple of Padawans.  This particular afternoon she picked her children up from school.  It seemed like a normal day, they were discussing the day: lunch room antics, science tests, spelling, this and that.  When, she glances into her rear-view mirror and sees her her oldest son staring back at her, hands raised, as though he were framing her face in a magic trick.  She didn't know what, exactly to make of this.  So she asked him,
"Sean, what are you doing?" 
"Ssshhh. Mom.  I'm Forcing you."
"You're what?"
"Mom.  Ssshhh.  I'm Forcing you.  You want to take us for ice-cream. You want to take us for ice-cream."

Even though she was thoroughly entertained and extremely impressed at the creativity used in his attempt to gain an ice-cream sundae for himself, his brother and his sister...sadly the Force didn't work.  Sean was at a loss.  It didn't stop him from trying again a couple of days later...with Sonic.  Again, disappointment.  Made me think of something else. 

Today we are going to pick up with the prophets of the pagan god Baal.  Baal was a god (notice the little "g") in the Old Testament.  He was an idol, meaning he wasn't really a god, well, he most certainly was not THE GOD.  But the people liked to think that he was.  In fact, in today's Thought, we are going to look at a portion of Scripture that highlights a showdown of sorts between Baal's prophets and God's prophet.  Any guesses as to which one comes out on top?  Baal had 450 prophets...meaning there were 450 men trying to use the Force in the passage we are about to read.  1 Kings 18:25-29, "Elijah [the good guy] said to the prophets of Baal, 'Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you.  Call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.' So they took the bull...and called on the name of Baal from morning till noon...But there was no response; no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made...Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for evening sacrifice. But there was no response..."

What went wrong?  Well, the obvious answer is they were dancing, jumping and sacrificing to an IDOL.  They were never going to be able to call down fire on their bull.  Not in their power.  Not in their own strength.  Not even with the Force.  See, the rest of the story shows that Elijah had a bull and an altar, too.  He soaked his altar with water three times.  Then he prayed to God, the One True God, and BAM! Everything was incenerated.  Even the stones. 

So, what do we walk away with?  Hopefully, what you see is that you don't have to do things on your own.  You can't do things on your own.  Elijah was a great man of God.  But he knew the Source from which he got his strength.  You have strength and power that is yet untapped.  I just know it!  So, today don't tap the Force...tap your Source.  Open up that line of communication with your heavenly Father.  It's a new year, the lines are open and ready to get some really good conversation flowing.  Have a blessed week!!


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