The Filing Cabinets

I remember years ago working as an assistant of the executive director of a major organization. Let's call him Douglass.

He was one of the realest people that I ever met. He was the stern no nonsense type that stayed busy. In fact, he used to go to Met's training camp to work out and all up into his 80's.

I can recall it like it was yesterday he took me outside of his office to his secretary's office where there were eight huge filing cabinets. In those filing cabinets he had accumulated materials on every topic that interested him. He gathered them over the years and they were jammed packed.

Douglass is an excellent writer and expert in many areas. He is one who many people sort after to ask questions, interview and so fourth. I'm thankful I learned a lot from Douglas and I will never forget him.

I learned a lot about filing cabinets too. Throughout the course of life there are 8 file cabinets that we all have in our lives.

File Cabinet#1 What God has Done For Us
File Cabinet#2 Good Times We Have Had
File Cabinet#3 Friends
File Cabinet#4 People Who Have Offended Us
File Cabinet#5 & 6 Our Sins
File Cabinet#7 Hopes and Dreams
File Cabinet#8 Accomplishments

Out of these 8 file cabinets how many of these are filled to capacity?

Is your file cabinet of people who have offended you jammed packed?

Is your file cabinet of sins jammed?

How many of these cabinets do you spend time in reviewing information?

Today we should get rid of the file cabinet of our sins the way God throws all of our sins into the sea of forgetfulness.

Right now we should go into the file cabinet of those who have offended us to pray for them and forgive them so God can forgive us.

We should study the material in the seven remaining file cabinets. Seven is the number of completion and perfection. So we must go through all seven to have a more complete look at our lives.

When we do this we will soon be compelled to have a praise party because God has been too good to us to be quiet about it.

You can be quiet about it but I will start a riot about it. God is awesome to the infinite power and his mercy endures forever and ever. O taste and see the the Lord is umm umm good.