AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD.
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@ao.com Watch YouTube: Wade Hughes
After my surgeries, I was going weekly to Louisville to the Brown Cancer Institute. One of my sons would drive us. They placed a dual port in my right shoulder where the bone was gone. At times I had two medicines pumped in at one time. I would lay there as my family would go eat lunch and get out. Each time I had a painful lumbar puncture. I would watch people. I would really watch the young people coming in for their first treatment. There would be familiar faces. After my final treatment I looked around. I saw many suffering and I pondered what was ahead for them. In my weeks there, I would hear people get to ring a bell. I GOT TO RING A BELL on my last treatment. I looked at my wife of 55 years, my son. I looked around at all the suffering cancer patients. I held the rope dangling from the bell. I gingerly rang the bell. Sure I was excited, but my mind remembered some people would not live to go home. The battle with CONDROSCARCOMA and LYMPHOMA took me to a new place I had never known. From one rehab place to another, I had to learn to swallow and learn to walk again. In the rehab hospital I saw some hopeless cases. I had my wife bring my guitar and when I was better I played and we sang twice a day. I needed to GIVE HOPE to me and to others. The wheelchair was a prison. One older lady could not talk due to a stroke. We were singing AMAZING GRACE, SHE SANG EVERY WORD. The nurse said her family would be here later and she asked me to play and have the lady sing for their family. We gathered around the dining room table and the nurse said you will not believe this. As I started playing and singing the non-verbal lady sang every word. The family asked us to do it again and they videoed her singing. They were from another state. As they wheeled my chair out, one daughter came and hugged me. Thanked me and said: WE WILL PLAY THIS AT HER FUNERAL. I LEARNED MERCY IS TO SHOW LOVE AND FAVOR WHEN I DON’T FEEL LIKE IT. I HAVE LEARNED MERCY SURE BEATS RETRIBUTION.
ARE WE WAITING FOR A BETTER DAY? WHY NOT MAKE TODAY BETTER! HOW WILL THE TALE BE TOLD ABOUT US?
Psalm 55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
**“OH, LITTLE BIRD”
Ullie-Kaye
OH, LITTLE BIRD, COULD
I NOT BE AS JOYFUL, WISE AND BRAVE AS THEE.
NO ANXIOUS THOUGHTS NOR LOVE OF POWER,
JUST GATHERING FOR HER PRESENT HOUR.
OH, LITTLE BIRD, SO SOFT AND LIGHT,
YOUR WINGS ENDURE THE LONGEST FLIGHT.
OH, LITTLE BIRD, TEACH ME TO FLY
WHERE FAITH IS GREATER THAN MY SIGH.
SO WHEN THE STORMS DESTROY MY PLANS.
I KNOW I AM IN --- MY FATHER’S HANDS.
IF WE ARE NOT CAREFUL LIFE BECOMES A BURDEN AND WE LOSE SIGHT OF OUR GOAL… ETERNITY. EVERY MIRACLE STARTS WITH PROBLEMS AND TRIALS… THERE HAS TO BE MORE THAN A TALE THAT IS TOLD! HAVE WE FOUND OUR MISSION?
Ecclesiastes 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
WE MUST LEARN THAT WE HAVE TO EXERT EFFORT TO BECOME MORE THAN A TALE THAT IS TOLD. LIFE HAS SOME REAL LESSONS TO TEACH. MOSES WAS A CHOSEN VESSEL. WHEN HIS HE COULD NO LONGER BE HIDDEN, MOMMA MADE A BASKET, LINED WITH TEARS. MOSES SPENT 40 YEARS IN THE PALACE AS PHAROAH’S SON. MOSES FIRST 40 YEARS HE THOUGHT HE WAS HOT STUFF. BECAUSE OF AN APB AND MURDER MOSES WAS FORCED TO GO TO THE BACKSIDE OF THE DESERT. THERE MOSES LEARNED HE WAS A NOBODY IN A NOBODY PLACE.
MOSES TEACHES US OUR YEARS ARE AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD. Do we understand MOSES JOURNEY? Do we know MOSES IS GIVEN CREDIT FOR PSALM 90? Moses had learned life can be difficult. We must learn to pray. Moses is listed as A MAN OF GOD. MOSES LEARN GOD WAS EVERYTHING.
Psalm 90:1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Psalm 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
**WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR HAS A LESSON THAT MACBETH SPOKE. “ IT IS A TALE TOLD BY AN IDIOT, FULL OF SOUND AND FURY SIGNIFYING NOTHING.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 (NLT2) That’s the whole story. Here now is my final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commands, for this is everyone’s duty.
WE CANNOT FLY AWAY MY FRIENDS. WE ARE A CANDLE. THE CANDLE IS ABOUT LIGHT. THE CANDLE WILL BURN AND GIVE ITSELF FOR THE LIGHT. MY HEART HEARS THE HOLY SPIRIT: BURN! FINISH IT! Many start, few finish. THERE IS AN EARLY CHRISTIAN BELIEVER BRIEFLY MENTIONED IN PAUL’S WRITINGS. WHAT TALE WILL WE LEAVE BEHIND?
We know very little about Archippus. He is mentioned twice in the New Testament. We do not know anything about him except he had some kind of work or ministry to do in the church. Paul was writing to the Colossians. As Paul is closing this book, PAUL REMEMBERS A CHRISTIAN WORKER, ARCHIPPUS. Paul asked ARCHIPPUS to TAKE HEED and do HIS BEST in the Lord’s work. I really take this lesson to my heart. HISTORY RECORDS THAT ARCHIPPUS WAS STONED TO DEATH with several other ministers.
Colossians 4:17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
Colossians 4:17 (MSG) And, oh, yes, tell Archippus, "Do your best in the job you received from the Master. Do your very best."
Colossians 4:17 (AMP) And say to Archippus: See that you discharge carefully (the duties of) the ministry and fulfill the stewardship which you received in the Lord.
WE DO NOT WELL, WHILE OTHERS ARE DYING! OUR TALE THAT WILL BE TOLD? WE WILL CHANGE HISTORY! FOUR MEN DECIDED THEY WILL NOT SIT HERE AND DO NOTHING. THE TALE THAT WILL BE TOLD WILL BE … WE MADE A DIFFERENCE.
2 Kings 7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? 4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
2 Kings 7:8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
CONCLUSION: JOSHUA’S TALE THAT WILL BE TOLD WILL BE GOD CAN TAKE US AND DO MIRACLES. You write your story however you desire. JOSHUA SAYS: You tell your tale however you choose. JOSHUA’S TALE WILL BE TOLD: ME AND MY HOUSE --- WE WILL SERVE THE LORD.
Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
WHEN YOUR TALE IS TOLD: Make sure you: Keep the main thing the main thing.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (Watch YouTube: Wade Hughes)
