The Incubator

THE INCUBATOR?

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

What is an incubator? A device to bring life, a place that aids development?

I was teaching the 7th grade at Rose Hill, Virginia. The 4-H club loaned us an incubator and 12 fertile chicken eggs. We did everything as they told us. We waited and waited. Finally 12 beautiful baby chicks hatched out. There was such excitement in the class room.

Is your mind and mouth an incubator for TROUBLE and TRIALS? Will we allow JUNK to accumulate and become HOARDERS? Have we allowed A PIG-PEN MENTALITY to thrive in our homes? BEHAVIOR and ATTITUDES can be taught?

Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Galatians 6:5 (MSG) Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life. 6 Be very sure now, you who have been trained to a self-sufficient maturity, that you enter into a generous common life with those who have trained you, sharing all the good things that you have and experience.

7 Don't be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!— 8 harvests a crop of weeds. All he'll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God's Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.

ARE WE ALWAYS PULLING WEEDS? MAYBE WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE ROOTS?

WE CAN GROW BETTER FRUIT IF WE PLANT BETTER SEED. TOIL HARDER… THE BEST IS YET TO COME!

LET US USE WISDOM TO FILTER AND CORRECT OUR ATTITUDES. THE LIFE COMES FROM THE SEEDS AND THE ROOTS…

MAY WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE BEST IS YET TO COME? WE WILL BE ROOTED AND GROUNDED IN LOVE.

Hebrews 12:12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. 14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

DID THEY BURY JESUS? MAYBE THEY JUST PLANTED HIM…

JESUS JUST BORROWED A GRAVE FOR 3 DAYS… THANK YOU JOSEPH OF ARIMATHAEA FOR PLANTING THE SEED…

God has the tendency to save the best for the last! Maybe the last time you looked the vat was dry? The best is yet to come! Maybe the last time you looked into the vat it was water! The best is yet to come! Maybe it is Friday and they have killed the SON of God? The best is yet to come! Don’t die on the brink of the miracle! Don’t quit! Don’t give up! Don’t throw in the towel.

2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

The third day is coming, the BEST IS YET TO COME! Are you expecting the worse? Hey, have you got the feeling everything is going to be ALRIGHT? Say it! Speak the word! Make a declaration of faith: THE BEST IS YET TO COME. We have survived the storm. We are blessed. The incubator will bring life.

Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Come to the incubator. God can help us thrive in the midst of the storm. This trial is a great opportunity to trust God and declare. The best is yet to come.

ARE WE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF DOOM AND FAILURE? CAN WE HONESTLY DECLARE: THE BEST IS YET TO COME THE INCUBATOR IS WELL? OR HAVE WE ALLOWED OUR HEARTS TO BECOME HARDENED TO THE POINT THAT LIFE IS QUE SERA, SERA --- WHAT WILL BE WILL BE… THE FUTURE IS NOT OURS TO SEE, QUE SERA, SERA?

Let us sing the anthem of the modern reality: Gloom, despair, agony on end? Deep dark depression, excessive misery? If it weren’t for bad luck, I’ve no luck at all? Gloom, despair and agony on me…

Come in the incubator and live. Our hopes and dreams have been dashed. It’s over, the fat lady has already sang her song and sat down. We are forever trapped? Nothing will ever change? There is nothing new under the sun? SPEAK LIFE.