Blackboard Scritch Parable ...... by DianaDee Osborne

January 3
I love technology.
My college Keyboarding experience included a state-of-the-art  dinky electric typewriter and White-Out.   Why would anyone ever miss THAT?
One bad thing about technology:  We lose the meaning of wonderfully onomatopoeic words like  SCRITCH.   Because there's no longer any school  BLACKBOARD  in the classroom to teach youth   the HORRORs  of the
scritch scratch screech  (SHRIEK!!!)  experience of scraping fingernails   or hard chalk  on a blackboard.

If you are old enough to remember that quite 'unique'  shall-we-say

sound,  then you probably already feel the hackles 

rising on your back at the horrible remembrance. 
    (Hackles.... now, there's another word you'll probably never see 
           on your device that begins with some vowel.)
I also love parables...

Did you know that Wise King Solomon wrote 1,005 songs -- and he  spoke in nature  PARABLES?

Check out First Kings 4, verses 32 and 33. 

Besides wondering who counted up all those songs 

in days before computer spreadsheets,

you're probably wondering what any of this has to do with DIETING.  OK, here goes:

1.  Today's blog,   like many other of my blogs and of "my" (God's creative) 250+  published songs,  is a parable to help understand our relationship with LORD God.  I'm not as smart as I like (by far),  and I think in patterns and pictures.  

         So I feel a sisterhood   with the common people who learned more about God and His Love and Plan of Salvation  from Jesus's animal and door and wineskin stories   than they did from eloquent scripture examinations in "church."

2.  My sin.... your sin.... our sins -- whatever they may be -- are
like screeching  scraping  SCRITCHING  to our HOLY Almighty God.

That is what you and I do to Him ---

God who has LOVED us  SO  much --

when we CHOOSE  to be   self-centered   and

do what we know does NOT  please Him.    ALSO  Known As   "SIN".  Also known as over-eating,  over-spending,  over-using the internet or over-watching TV.

Also known as GOSSIPING -- even in church in the name of "Prayer concerns."
Also known as ANGER we claim is  normal frustration when things don't go our way.
       That INCLUDES  in the church "serving God."  2nd Corinthians 12:20 and others.

Also known as FEAR that God will not keep His promises to help us.
And not just LYING,  but believing Satan's original sinful words -- saying that God  lies.

We are Scritching,  Nauseating people..... to a Holy God who dearly yearns to make us Right with Him through Jesus Christ our Savior.  So that we can live with Him forever.

PRAYER
         Father God,  Please help me to SEE  how disgusting my sins are to You.  Please give me the MIND OF  CHRIST  that  You describe  in Second Corinthians 2:16.  Help me to be HOLY as You are holy --- which You tell us is possible, so I shall trust Your Word.  But I know I cannot do this without You.  I pray for Your guidance, wisdom, and protection from temptations.  Help me to stop making choices that hurt or disgust you -- whatever choices they may be.  Even if  something that humans call insignificant like Diet choices.  
I pray this in the HOLY Name and power of our LORD Jesus Christ -- for Your glory.

*ENCOURAGEMENT*

Hebrews 7:25.   Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

James 1:21   New Living Translation

So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls.
*God's WARNINGS*

Colossians 3:8 to 10
But now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language. Don't lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.

©2013 DianaDee Osborne;  all rights reserved.  But feel free to print with copyright info, & share for nonprofit usage!
Other encouraging resources:  http://DianaDeeSongStories.blogspot.com
SAMPLE PARABLE SONGS  (described there now  or scheduled for January 2013)
are located on the index website  DianaDeeOsborneSongs.com :

Calculated Trust    (Using a calculator to prove that 2+2+2 = 7)

Costly Love Gifts     (diamonds and coal)
Crunchy Coffee Blues    (one of my favorites)

Frogs Under the House

God's Pearl Necklace

Great Dane Faith

Jack in the Box NOT

Poor Little Fig Tree      (ok,   I  'borrowed'  the story idea  from Jesus)
Snow Off a Collie's Back