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His Goodness.
“Thou crownest the year with thy goodness.” Psalm 65:11 All the year round, every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake his mercy waits upon us. The sun may leave us a legacy of darkness, but our God never ceases to shine upon his children with beams of love. Like a river, his lovingkindness is always flowing, with a fulness inexhaustible as his own nature. Like the atmosphere which constantly surrounds the earth, and is always ready to support the life of man, the benevolence of God surrounds all his creatures; in it, as in their element, they live, and move, and have their being. Yet as the sun on summer days gladdens us with beams more warm and bright than at other times, and as rivers are at certain seasons swollen by the rain, and as the atmosphere itself is sometimes fraught with more fresh, more bracing, or more balmy
influences than heretofore, so is it with the mercy of God; it hath its golden hours, its days of overflow, when the Lord magnifieth his grace before the sons of men. Amongst the blessings of the nether springs, the joyous days of harvest are a special season of excessive favor. It is the glory of autumn that the ripe gifts of providence are then abundantly bestowed; it is the mellow season of realization, whereas all before was but hope and expectation. Great is the joy of harvest. Happy are the reapers who fill their arms with the liberality of heaven. The Psalmist tells us that the harvest is the crowning of the year. Surely these crowning mercies call for crowning thanksgiving! Let us render it by the inward emotions of gratitude. Let our hearts be warmed; let our spirits remember, meditate, and think upon this goodness of the Lord. Then let us praise him with our lips, and laud and
magnify his name from whose bounty all this goodness flows. Let us glorify God by yielding our gifts to his cause. A practical proof of our gratitude is a special thank-offering to the Lord of the harvest.
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Bad Influence.
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Bad influence is the result of having a wrong system of information and social structure. Influence is a word that reflects that something is being fluency inside. Morality has its limits according to the belief system of each person, family or society. In the ancient times because many cultures believe there where many gods, and accordingly to them every god was pleased with human behaviors, they lived to please those gods that at the end, were merely auto pleasing society in their own pleasures and invented all kind of gods to support their way of living.
We all need to believe in a higher authority to control ourselves, that is a natural law. Since we are borne we had this dependency on someone to learn what we should or not should do, and based on what the adult people believe we had to do, they showed to us. We have to understand that what we call badly, is has to be define by someone, who said is bad? Why? When?
A system of moral behavior has to come from a superior mind, so we can learn. The natural law of education is that always the master teaches to the student and if we say that we came with no knowledge and we have to learn, we have to accept that we need to learn from a superior mind to teach us what is bad and what is good.
Our parents did their best, as we as adult people do now to teach what we believe is good and bad to our generations, but are we really teaching what is good? Isn’t that true, that we living in times when people are calling good bad, and vice verse? Good to drink alcohol, good to smoke cigarettes, bad to go sleep early Friday nights, our moral values need to depend on a belief system that has a foundation that not man can removed, or else, always another man will change his morals according to his own desires. We seen it, we know it, and we proved it, with no morals, our society deforms the ways of living, transforming the human behaviors and more like animal instincts destroying our own future.
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