Thursday, October 13, 2011

#8. Orders Are Needed


The teens, Max and Duke busied themselves following the instructions they'd just been given on dismantling the computer boxes, remembering all the warnings. While you fellas are gutting those computers in front of you, I want to teach you something that will put loads of fun into your life, squeezing out lots of the stress we all have to deal with. It has to do with order.”

Blaster, (I mean Gramps) walked to a nearby marker board and picked up a marker, checking to see if it still had some life in it. He wrote in bold letters at the top of the board, “ORDER”. “Fellas, our word for the day, sort-of, is ORDER. You and I hear orders put to us far more than we like it. 'Do this.' 'Do that.' 'Ya better clean your room before dad gets home.' If you don't have that report on my desk by 3 pm today, you won't like what happens next.'”

Our first type of order is like a command – 'do this or else...'” Gramps wrote the word COMMAND below the bold word ORDER.
Our second type of order is to purchase or obtain something – 'We'll order pizzas, later'.
The third type of order is the way scientists group plants and animals and stuff. They group by family, order, species, etc.'” The words PURCHASE and GROUPING were written below the word COMMAND.

Gramps continued teaching while the teens made good use of screwdrivers on the computer scrap. Our fourth type of order we'll call QUIET. Do you remember, we've already begun learning about that kind of quiet. We'll be learning more more about the those two kinds of quiet; inside quiet and outside quiet, as we go along.”

Our fifth type of ORDER is the arrangement of things we have and do. It's what we think of when we get up in the morning... well, first get my clothes on, grab something quick to eat and then... This is what people are referring to, when they tell you, 'Don't get your cart before the horse.' Do you remember how we started out this morning? First we prayed and asked God to direct us, then we covered a few safety tips, and then we went to work. I'll add the words QUIET and ARRANGEMENT to our ORDER list here on the board.”

Did you two know the Bible tells us how to take computers apart? It certainly does. While you're working, I show you in our computer 'how-to' manual, here. Yeah, I know we also call it the Bible.” Gramps quickly turned to 1Corinthians 14:40. He slid the Bible over in front of the teens and said, “see here? It says 'Let all things be done decently and in order.' In another place it says, 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.' Some other day we'll talk about the building instructions for a guy that was going to build a tower.”

But it's how we arrange things that is so important. Whether we're storing computer pictures in this folder or that folder or the way you both are putting all the screws in this jar and the small cables in that box over there. It truly is calming to our minds and hearts to begin getting things sorted out, in our minds. First thing to do, is to decide what you really want – down deep. Way down where a part of you always stays, and the first to say 'good morning' to your mind, in the morning. Max and Duke, lock at me a minute.” They did. “Fellas, God has given us a whole toolbox of things we can get our hearts sorted out and do great work for Him. But He only asks that you put Him first, on your daily 'to-do list', and the top spot on your list of what and who you love.