It’s my job to plant and or water the seed. It’s Gods job to bring the increase which brings understanding so folks can truly see and understand the truth.
Last video of HeeHaw the donkey.
Here's what it looks like when a 4 month-old donkey runs up to you.
Would you shoot?
(Video posted by his owner on Instagram)
“He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?”
~ Micah 6:8 NKJV
The moment you understand why Dostoevsky titled his novel "The Idiot" is the moment you understand how society often treats genuine goodness: as foolishness or naivety to be trampled on.
In a world that prizes cunning, self-interest and status, a person who is purely kind and honest, like Prince Myshkin, is easily dismissed as an 'idiot'. His so-called idiocy is not a lack of intelligence. It is the strength of his moral principles, which the world around him cannot recognize or value.
The same patterns still hold today. Where ambition, power and self-interest are glorified, kindness is made to look like weakness. People who refuse to treat every relationship as a transaction are called naive. Those who choose honesty over manipulation are called foolish. Those who love deeply, without agenda, are told they are 'too much'.
Dostoevsky reminds us that true goodness is not ignorance. It is courage: the courage to stay kind in a cold cruel world, to remain gentle where life has hardened others and to believe in decency when deceit would be the easier path. That is strength, not stupidity.
Never let the world convince you that our kindness is a flaw. It needs more hearts like ours, brave enough to stay open in the face of cynicism. :)
We are still in the acceptable year for the Lord.
“For as the earth brings forth its bud, As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, So the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.”
~ Isaiah 61:11 NKJV
We then, as workers together with Him, plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
2Cor6:1-2
“I will bless the LORD at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul shall make its boast in the LORD;
The humble shall hear of it and be glad.
Oh, magnify the LORD with me,
And let us exalt His name together.”
~ Psalms 34:1-3 NKJV