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Page 4B, The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, January 30,2019 The end of all nonsense and other practical jokes From The Bible By Jerry Kingery Special to the Ledger Dr. James L Snyder When it comes to prac tical jokes, Yours Truly is always on the ready. Throughout my earthly passage, I have perpetu ated my share of practical jokes. I will not enumer ate them here, the simple reason being, I might want to bring one out of retirement. I must say that most practical jokes are neither practical nor funny. However, I operate on the biblical premise, “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones” (Proverbs 17:22). With the high cost of medicine these days, I will take a merry heart every time. Just call me Dr. Merry Heart, and I will dispense some good medicine to everybody who needs it. Now, the practical joke I am thinking of has to do with New Year’s Resolutions. I always look forward to the last week in January for this very reason. For the first several weeks of January, I am nervous and sweat ing over those lousy New Year’s Resolutions I am forced to make. Pardon my French. Somewhere there is someone laughing at all of those stupid enough to make New Year’s Resolu tions. It is probably the quintessential practical joke played on all human ity. Is there a culture any where in our world today that does not fall for this practical joke? If there is, I want to move there. The first week in Janu ary is probably the worst week when it comes to these New Year’s Resolu tions. They are fresh in our mind not to mention fresh on our lips. A New Year’s Resolution would not be so bad if nobody knew that we made one. The problem comes when somebody knows what our resolution is and constantly reminds us, “How’s your New Year’s Resolutions coming along?” For most of us, it is a formula for lying. Of course, I blame my friends who are tempting me into this pattern of ly ing. If they would forget my resolutions as easily as I do, there would be peace on earth good will to men. Nevertheless, during the first week, I entertain high intentions about my resolutions. And like the thought-challenged beggar that I am, I boast to everybody about the high quality resolutions I have put in force for the coming year. All this in an effort to improve my standing among my peers. Most of my peers are standing in high water themselves. My objective is to make them think that I am a progres sive, forward thinking, highbrow person of the future. I cannot control what they think, but I can help them along the thinking process con cerning myself. The second week of January is a high wa ter mark for these New Year’s Resolutions. It is during this week that I begin to have suspicions about the legitimacy of my resolutions. The first week they look wonder ful, but the second week the rose begins fading and I begin to see what I have strapped myself with for the coming year. Then, just when my confidence is beginning to shake, a friend of mine will ask, “How’s your New Year’s Resolutions coming along?” On Facebook, they have a process called “defriending.” I must find out how that works. I have a list of friends I would like to “defriend,” at least until my New Year’s Resolutions have faded into the distant past of forgetfulness. The next person that asks me about my New Year’s Resolu tions will be added to that infamous list. Then the third week of January comes around. It is at this time I begin to see that my New Year’s Resolutions were made by a fool. There is no fool quite like the one in your bathroom mirror. By now, I find there is absolutely no way those resolutions will be kept by me. If only I could sell my resolutions on eBay, I might make out pretty good, because on paper they look terrific. At this stage of the month, the Gracious Mistress of the Parson age says to me, “How’s your New Year’s Resolu tions coming along?” She always says it with a silly little smirk on her face. She knows that the boast of January 1 loses its luster by January 21. Af ter all, she has 46 years, this coming summer, of experience with my New Year’s Resolutions. It is the fourth week of January I am most inter ested in. To go through the first three weeks of January is rather pain ful but by the time the last week comes around everything is forgotten. Not only have I forgot ten my resolutions, but everybody around me has forgotten them as well. At least they have given up asking me about those resolutions. I take what I get and am thankful. Some may have heard about my defriending policy. The thing most trou bling is, I never learn my lesson. Next year it will be the very same thing, and consequently, the same outcome. There is something to forgetting the past. I find it interesting that the things we need to forget are the very things we remember, and the things we should remember are the ones we usually forget. The apostle Paul un derstood this very thing. “Brethren, I count not myself to have appre hended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,” (Philippians 3:13). The best resolution has to do with my relation ship with God. And that is no practical joke. Dr. James L. Snyder is pastor of the Family of God Fellowship, 1471 Pine Road, Ocala, FL 34472. He lives with his wife in Silver Springs Shores. Call him at 352-687-4240 or e-mail jamessnyder2@att.net. The church web site is www.whatafellowship. com. Triumphal entry There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus. On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt. These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glori fied, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him. The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record. For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye pre vail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him. And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. Philip cometh and telleth An drew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glori fied. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abi- deth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 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