Guidelines For Living

Harold Sala

Can You Trust Your Conscience?

August 17, 2021

How do you think a restaurant would do where people were expected to pay for what they took, and pay as much or as little as they thought it was worth?  That is exactly what the owners of one restaurant decided to do.  Gene and Grace Valian were owners of the Great American Breakfast and Barbecue House. They decided to try a pay-what-you-want experiment.  But it ended in failure.  Some people have "just no consciences at all," they said, explaining that most people paid "just a shade under what they would have normally paid." 

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Pol Pot's death was lamented when he died—not because he was loved by fellow Cambodians.  To the contrary, his death was a disappointment to many because like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, he died without being held accountable for the millions of men and women he slaughtered without cause.  He died at the age of 73, forlorn, bedridden, lonely and defiant.  Yes, proudly defiant.  In November 1997, he broke an 18-year silence and did an interview that was carried by the Far Eastern Economic Review.  In the interview, he turned to the reporter and said, "…look at me, am I a savage person?"  The man who gave the world the killing fields and sent between 1.6 and 2 million people to their deaths still thought of himself as a good man.
August 16, 2021
It was late at night as my taxi made its way from the airport in San Jose, Costa Rica to the small hotel where I was staying.  I was hungry, and after I checked in I made my way to a nearby restaurant.  As I walked the short distance, I noticed that the streets were filled with youth, say, from ages 7 to 13 or 14.  They were dirty and poorly dressed, and they seemed to be milling around with nowhere to go.  Naturally, I was a bit uncomfortable.
August 13, 2021
A few years ago, when Planet Jupiter took a hit by a comet which left a crater larger than our own planet, people began to wonder, "Could the same thing happen to Planet Earth right here?"  Others, though more pragmatic, said, "Forget Jupiter.  I'm getting direct hits right now that make the chances of getting swept into space by a stray comet seem nothing!" They say, "My marriage has taken a hit!" "My health has taken a hit!"  "My job is about to play out on me, and I don't know how I can feed my family!"
August 12, 2021
Long ago, the wise man Solomon said that there is nothing new under the sun, and the longer I live, the more convinced I am that he was right.  Take, for example, management.  You want to open an office in another town or city, and you cannot be on location to see whether the manager or the staff are on the job.  You want to add another salesperson and when he's on the road, you have no way of knowing whether he is drinking coffee somewhere or out making his calls.  What do you do?  You strive to manage by agreeing on certain objectives which should be reached; then you measure progress by what is accomplished.
August 11, 2021
A popular Christian song goes, "He'll never let you fall..." and while the words are comforting and assuring, they can be misleading.  The fact is that individuals whose hearts have been touched by the divine do, on occasion, stumble badly.  Their marriages face difficulty.  Their kids don't always stay out of trouble.  They don't always stay on the straight and narrow.  They stumble, and on occasion they fall.  Why?  Because God failed them, or because they failed Him? 
August 10, 2021
"The man who says he can read his wife like a book, only shows how illiterate he really is." I don't know whom to credit with this bit of wit and wisdom, yet it's true.  Both men and women struggle with an abysmal ignorance of each other's psychological make up, and subsequently live with myths that seem to be passed from generation to generation.  Like what?
August 9, 2021
For more than 70 years my father-in-law, Dr. Guy Duffield, was a Bible teacher, author, and minister. In his lifetime he wrote books on preaching, on doctrine, and on the practical Christian life.  When he was well into his 80s and living in a retirement facility, a young woman from Lebanon who worked where Dr. Duffield resided met him and showed great interest in the fact that he believed that the Bible is a supernatural book.
August 6, 2021
Suppose you are a young man whose best friend has a sister whom you have heard about but never met.  Your friend describes her jet-black hair, and lovely eyes, her outgoing vivacious personality and her fun-loving disposition.  The more you hear about her, the more interested you become.  Week after week, he tells you about her, and you find yourself wanting to meet her.  So you say, "How about introducing me to her?"  And he replies, "I don't think you believe she really exists."  You reply, "That's dumb; of course, I believe she exists.  Remember, you showed me her picture!"   Should that happen, you would begin to wonder about your friend's sanity.
August 5, 2021
Francois Mitterrand, the late president of France, was an intellectual and an atheist.  Yet in the latter years of his life, he had a fascination with death and a desire to know what lies beyond the grave--something which challenged the atheism which he held to, at least philosophically.  Possessed by a strange fascination with death, he visited the graves of many of France's leading citizens pondering how they lived and how they died.  He once said that "he who loves death loves life."
August 4, 2021
Richard Versalle was portraying the minor role of a law clerk named Vitek in a performance at the prestigious Metropolitan Opera in New York City.  He was age 63 and had suffered absolutely no adverse health problems. In the opera there is a beautiful and mysterious woman who wants to live forever. Her father, a chemist-magician, concocts a powerful elixir which allows her to live more than 300 years.  But Versalle, portraying the law clerk, sings a line which goes, "You can only live so long."  Little did anyone who attended the opera that night realize that those words— "You can only live so long" --would be the last sentence ever to come from the lips of this man whose singing had touched the hearts of thousand and thousands in his career.
August 3, 2021
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About Harold Sala

Speaker, author and Bible teacher, Dr. Harold Sala founded Guidelines in 1963 and pioneered the first 5-minute Christian program on radio.  Dr. Sala holds a Ph.D. in biblical text and has taught at conferences, seminars and churches the world over.  An author of over 60 books published in 19 languages, his most recent release is 40 Unstoppable Women (Rose Publishing).

 

 

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