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The men of Amana took on the task of disassembly and reassembly of a “play land” which Mac Donalds has donated to the church. It is no small task. I would like to say my contribution has been substantial, but there is too much evidence to the contrary. My greatest contribution has been staying out of the way, handing tools to the real workers when I understood what tool they were asking for and driving around a trailer that someone else donated.<\/span><\/div>\n

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But I have been greatly blessed watching men who certainly had more pressing things to do, spend hours in cheerful, difficult, and productive labor. At Amana we are blessed with leadership and membership that is not afraid to get its hands’ dirty or to take on the toughest jobs.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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Today OC asks: “Am I perfecting this type of holiness in the fear of God? Is God getting His way with me, and are other people beginning to see God in my life more and more?”\u00a0 For a group of great guys at Amana, I have observed that the answer is “yes.” In a very real and practical way.<\/span><\/div>\n

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“Be serious with God and leave the rest gaily alone. Put God first literally.” Guys, thanks for doing that this week. I know you will be as blessed in your labor\u00a0 as I’ve been in just watching.<\/span><\/div>\n

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OC can be pretty deep. His spiritual musings often have me reading and re-reading several times. His words are challenging as today when he explores issues of perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Sometimes I need more practical lessons. I got such a lesson the last two days at MacDonald’s in Rayne.\u00a0 The men of Amana took on the task of disassembly and reassembly of a “play land” which Mac Donalds has donated to the church. It is no small task. I would like to say my contribution has been substantial, but there is too much evidence to the contrary. My greatest contribution has been staying out of the way, handing tools to the real workers when I understood what tool they were asking for and driving around a trailer that someone else donated. But I have been greatly blessed watching men who certainly had more pressing things to do, spend hours in cheerful, difficult, and productive labor. At Amana we are blessed with leadership and membership that is not afraid to get its hands’ dirty or to take on the toughest jobs.\u00a0 Today OC asks: “Am I perfecting this type of holiness in the fear of God? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}