Thursday, August 03, 2006
Scorched
Friday Amy goes to Madison to have a CT Scan done. The doctors say this scan will be used as a baseline and they will take another scan after Amy completes her 6 months of chemo, then they will compare the two to see if anything has returned. Even though this is a baseline, I’m sure they will look over the films very carefully. We’re at another milestone in this journey; Amy’s a little over 8 weeks out from surgery and she’s already started her post-operative chemo, but this will be the first time since surgery that we’ll get a ‘look’ inside. I admit that I’m feeling a little apprehensive, but I fully expect that nothing will show up.
Tonight, Amy and I went out and watered the garden. We’re getting some rather large tomatoes coming in, however, about 6 of them look like they’re half deflated. I asked our neighbors about it and they have never seen anything like it before, so I looked online and found out that it’s called Sun Scorching. They’re getting too much sun and not enough leaf cover. Not really sure what I can do for that, but one of the receptionists at work is a master gardener and I will ask her tomorrow.
My tomatoes got me to thinking about the verse in John 15 that says: ‘I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.’ Just like my tomatoes, I see fellow Christians being scorched, not by the sun, but instead by the world. They listen and abide by deceitful and misleading theologies. Being taught by people claiming to be of God, but instead have sold out to the world and have fully bought into the lies of the deceiver. These people take advantage of immature fruit while it’s still on the vine and choke it off from the truth. They manipulate and even downgrade the importance of the scriptures and the divinity of Jesus Christ. The entire 2nd chapter of 2 Peter and 3rd chapter of 2 Timothy talks about such people and it says that we are to have nothing to do with them.
This is Amy's story as seen and told by me - V
Tonight, Amy and I went out and watered the garden. We’re getting some rather large tomatoes coming in, however, about 6 of them look like they’re half deflated. I asked our neighbors about it and they have never seen anything like it before, so I looked online and found out that it’s called Sun Scorching. They’re getting too much sun and not enough leaf cover. Not really sure what I can do for that, but one of the receptionists at work is a master gardener and I will ask her tomorrow.
My tomatoes got me to thinking about the verse in John 15 that says: ‘I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.’ Just like my tomatoes, I see fellow Christians being scorched, not by the sun, but instead by the world. They listen and abide by deceitful and misleading theologies. Being taught by people claiming to be of God, but instead have sold out to the world and have fully bought into the lies of the deceiver. These people take advantage of immature fruit while it’s still on the vine and choke it off from the truth. They manipulate and even downgrade the importance of the scriptures and the divinity of Jesus Christ. The entire 2nd chapter of 2 Peter and 3rd chapter of 2 Timothy talks about such people and it says that we are to have nothing to do with them.
This is Amy's story as seen and told by me - V
# posted by Vince @ 11:36 PM 
