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Psalm 19:10.    More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
 
Ah Friends, I guess I was either mislead, or I read the weather symbols wrong yesterday when I declared it would be another beautiful day, because it certainly was not. It was cloudy, overcast and drizzly, though warm. And today promises to be more of the same. Right now it’s fairly foggy outside. That just goes to show how careful we have to be when reading, watching or trying to decipher and interpret stuff, because there’s so much false information and purveyors of false information out there in our wicked, ungodly world. Please be never too busy to ponder and contemplate for yourself, whatever your eyes and ears communicate to your heart and mind. Anyway, here’s a quote attributed to Thomas Alva Edison, (1847-1931) the prolific inventor, of amongst other things, the phonograph and the incandescent light bulb by which I’m now writing this sermon (smile). Edison claims that ‘Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.’ And that’s gospel my brethren! Many are the times we give up when we’re ever so close to being successful. It brings to mind the cliché, that the darkest hour is the one just before the dawn. Usually our worst and most difficult moments are those just before the answers burst through in a riotous brilliance of sunlight. (smile) Now Tommy Edison could certainly testify to that because he apparently made hundreds of attempts to perfect the light bulb before he was successful. The same goes for Henry Ford, the father of the motorcar, as we know it. He was totally ridiculed about his invention, I believe even Edison ignored him, but he had the last laugh because he had a dream, a desire placed in his heart from God and he knew that to be successful he had to persevere in faith. The same goes for us Friends. That means we can’t give up on whatever God ‘s placed in our hearts. Neither can we give up on the LOVE Revolution He’s called us to foment, to get our world back on track. We just have to hang on to the faith and courage we get from God’s Word. Why? Because as Bruh David declares in our Bit: ‘More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the (drippings of the) honeycomb.’ Wow! What a definitive statement! But it’s the awesome truth Friends! Hear how he leads up to that fact. ‘The law of the Lord is perfect, converting (restoring) the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear (reverence) of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’ (Ps.19:7-9) Yes Friends, all those who LOVE the Lord, know and faithfully believe those things. Then Bruh David continues: ‘Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.’ (Ps.19:11)Of a truth my brethren, the Lord’s law, testimony, statutes, commandments and judgements are all precious and desirable, much more so than earthly wealth. It’s even sweeter than honey to the believer’s heart, plus it gives us good guidance on how to live this life, then it also brings us great rewards from a faithful and magnanimous God.. What could be better than that eh people? Nothing really! Now listen to some testimony on that indisputable truth from some other men of great faith. The psalmist wrote in Psalm 119: ‘It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.’ (Ps.119:71-72) Later on he again declares the supremacy of God’s Word: ‘It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law (regarded it as void). Therefore I LOVE thy commandments above gold; yea above fine gold. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.’ (Ps.119:126-128) And finally, from the wisest man ever, Cousin Sol, when he proclaims that wisdom is everlasting: ‘All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward (crooked) or perverse in them. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies: and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.’ (Prov.8:8-11) Yes Friends, if Cousin Sol says it’s so, then it is so. For wisdom and understanding comes from knowing and following the Lord’s law. Therefore, let us, as true believers in, and followers of Jesus, do our very best to adhere to that law nuh, so that we might truly live in wisdom and understanding and get the most benefit from all our wonderful God has to offer. Much LOVE!…the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge…but fools despise wisdom and instruction… (Prov.1:7)