Putting young scamps together
is a recipe for trouble. It comes with a guarantee for they always do what
scamps will do.
I think the definition; “A mischievous rascal, perhaps roguish person, especially a playful,
impish youngster,” sums it up pretty well.
Having earned my Scamp badge at a young age I felt it was my duty to
practice scamp-e-ness.
Something that came to mind
was an event that occurred at the age of nine. We boys spent a lot of time at a
vacant lot and one day someone had moved a cabin cruiser onto the lot. It was
in very bad shape, I know that because we inspected it. It was leaning over on
it's side somewhat and not really supported. We claimed it as ours to use and
it became our hangout.
Then one day we discovered a
drunk sitting near the boat and he was repeatedly mumbling what we finally
figured out was "trying to go to sleep and trying to stay awake" over
and over. It was obvious that we were duty bound to have some fun with him.
Being near a fire station a
siren went off and we told the drunk the police was going to arrest him and he
should get in the boat and hide. After helping him get in the boat he laid down
in the bottom.
For some reason this didn't satisfy our scamp-e-ness and since
there was a hose and faucet near by we proceeded to fill the boat with water.
As it began to fill we shouted that the boat was sinking, the drunk struggled
to leave the sinking craft and about that time we decided it was time to leave.
It was our daily fare to try
to find some devilment to get in to and most of the time we were successful.
As
I got older this foolishness began to ebb but when I got saved part of my
deliverance was this driving force of scamp-e-ness left me along with many
other things which I won't mention.
The power of GOD unto
salvation has the most amazing changing power.
When I was full of it, I
considered myself to be righteous because I never deliberately tried to harm
anyone (outside of a few scuffles). But then I found that all my righteousness
was as filthy rags before GOD. I still
stand in awe at the change that occurs when a person is truly born anew.
The one thing that concerns
me is that I may not be experiencing everything God did for me. That I might
be, in some way falling short of the glory of God.
If anyone knew GOD it was
Paul the Apostle and he said; Philippians 3:12 Not that I have already obtained, or am
already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for
which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:9-10 and be found in him,
not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that
which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:
that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of
his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death.
This old hymn Higher Ground says it so well
- -
I’m pressing on the upward
way, New heights I’m gaining every day;
Still praying as I’m onward
bound, “Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.” .
Refrain:
Lord, lift me up and let me
stand, By faith, on Heaven’s tableland,
A higher plane than I have
found; Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
My heart has no desire to
stay,
Where doubts arise and fears
dismay;
Though some may dwell where
those abound,
My prayer, my aim, is higher
ground.
I want to live above the
world,
Though Satan’s darts at me
are hurled;
For faith has caught the
joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher
ground.
I want to scale the utmost
height
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I’ll pray till
heav’n I’ve found,
“Lord, plant my feet on
higher ground.”
This post is shared at:“Tell Me a True Story.”
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