The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling!

Take Stock~

Even as I write this morning I am cooking down the turkey carcas (and other parts) in order to make a stock with which I will later today make a turkey soup. And since my daughter purchased the turkey I am making enough stock to share with her. The smell in the house is becoming redolent with that sweet and savory smell of turkey, with fresh onion, celery, basil, thyme, and rosemary. In thinking about what I would include in this recipe I had to 'take stock'.

The other meanings of 'take stock' stems from a store owner making a count of his merchandise for ordering purposes, or a rancher counting his cattle. But the most prevailent meaing in use today is to think carefully about an event or purpose in order to form an opinion about a decision, in order to understand how a situation will affect your life. The understanding of where we are and where we want or need to be is part and parcel of being human, and is essential to our lives as we move from the temporal to the spiritual.

"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life". John 6:63.

When we begin our year end assessment, as many of us are want to do, we should take into account a number of factors that will affect the ultimate outcome of our lives here on this earth, as we move toward the decisions that will affect our eternity. The most important element of this process is the process itself, the method by which we choose our course, or our recipie, for our eternity; either eternal life, or eternal death. Jesus actually gave the method to John, as seen in Revelation;

"So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus". Rev.12:17.