Here Comes Trouble Again! # 3

What is interesting about these rock groups is how they decide who is going to be the lead singer.

Illus: Someone suggested they did it this way.

Someone starts off as a guitar player but he can not play. The group then gives him some sticks, puts him in the back, and calls him a drummer. When he does not work out as a drummer, they take away the sticks, put him up front, and call him the lead singer.

Every time I hear these singers, it makes me wonder what they did with the money that was given to them for their singing lessons.

The only thing that is more obnoxious than these men and women screaming into microphones, are the people who pay good hard earned money to hear them scream.

I love to listen to good musicians and good singers, but I have no tolerance for these NOISE MAKERS.

In April of 1994, I found it interesting to read of a rock singer by the name of Kurt Cobain who ended his career and life by committing suicide. He was the lead singer of the group called "Nirvana." His suicide prompted a lot of questions. Why would a fellow do such a thing? He seemed to have it all as a rock singer. He had:

• A thriving career in rock music

• Dedicated fans

• Plenty of money

• A beautiful wife

• A 19 month-old daughter

SO WHY DID HE KILL HIMSELF? To many it made no sense. But as you examine this man’s life more closely, it begins to make sense. He was a professed humanist. This tells us why he committed suicide. He believed that there was no God and there was no meaning or purpose to life. He was the center of his own universe, and he was bitter, so why stick around?

A lot of folks think if they can get the world’s riches, they can rid themselves of THE TROUBLES OF LIFE!

Everyone has trouble, the POOR and the RICH. No one is exempt from trouble…I MEAN NO ONE! Often the rich have more problems than the poor.

• A poor man can walk away from his house and leave the doors unlocked, because he does not have anything a thief would want to steal.

• A rich man better lock his house and buy a good security system because thieves are looking for ways to get into his house to steal what he has.

Illus: Did you hear about the rich man that owned a lumber store? A thief that was always stealing went to confess his sins to the priest. In the confession booth he admitted that for years he had been stealing building supplies from the lumberyard where he worked.

The priest said, "What did you take?" He said, “I stole enough lumber . . .

• To build my house,

• To build my son's house,

• To build houses for our two daughters, and

• To build our cottage at the lake."

The priest said, "This is very serious. Stealing is always wrong. I can understand you stealing to build a house for you and your children, but a cottage at the lake…that’s ridiculous!”

Sarcastically the priest said, “Did you build a retreat in the mountains also?” The thief said, "No, I haven't yet, but if you can get the plans, I can get the lumber."

Many of us do not have the worries that the RICH person has because we do not have to worry about someone stealing what we do not have. Listen, life is filled with trouble, it does not matter if you are RICH or POOR!

Job 5:7 says, “Yet man is born unto trouble…”

Tragedy usually comes suddenly and unexpectedly. We live each day finding ourselves saying, “Here trouble comes again!

• On her seventh wedding anniversary, the husband of one Christian lady called her up and told her he was going to leave her. He did leave for another woman. She was completely caught off guard.

• Some people go to work one day and find out they no longer have a job.

• Some people feel great today, but suddenly they are experiencing pain in their body, and in a few short weeks they are buried.

Job is right, if you are born into this life, you are going to have trouble AGAIN AND AGAIN!

In some ways our lives are like Job, because it seems trouble just keeps coming. But here is the good news; even though trouble comes into our life, we can be victorious.

Job is a good example of that in the scriptures. It seemed like every time he answered the door, there was someone there telling him of more trouble that entered his life.