January 2026
CRISIS or molehill?
Happy New Year Saints!
You know the old saying, “Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.” It was usually given to calm down the ‘drama-queen (or king)’ from blowing a very small matter up into something much bigger than it really was. Amid the Cuban Missile Crisis during the Kennedy Administration, we were the closest we have come to having a third World War! The naval blockade of Cuba by the Americans in response to the evidence of Russia’s intention to install missiles on the island had ratchet up tensions so much, that war seemed inevitable. Then the Kennedy administration sent a resolution overture to the Russians, and that evening they accepted. However, they sent a communication the following day that was more belligerent and not accepting of the terms they had seemed to agree to! What to do? Well… On advice from Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the Administration ignored the second response as if it was never received and accepted the terms of the first one! Crisis averted! The word of God tells us in Proverbs 15:1- “A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.”
(I like the advice that the writer of ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul” gave- “Don’t’ sweat the small stuff” and following that he wrote “It’s all small stuff!”). In this new year, let us resolve to be true ambassadors of Peace, and help to ratchet the tensions of the world down a bit? Let us resolve to be ‘spiritual de-escalators’. Let us be the ones determined to have a soft answer! Let us have made up minds to patiently love our enemies! In these last and evil days when social media has given everyone a platform on all things great (mountain) and small (molehill) let us use the power of Love granted to us by Jesus, to move mountains, and expose molehills!
Blessings,
Pastor J.
CRISIS or molehill?
Happy New Year Saints!
You know the old saying, “Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.” It was usually given to calm down the ‘drama-queen (or king)’ from blowing a very small matter up into something much bigger than it really was. Amid the Cuban Missile Crisis during the Kennedy Administration, we were the closest we have come to having a third World War! The naval blockade of Cuba by the Americans in response to the evidence of Russia’s intention to install missiles on the island had ratchet up tensions so much, that war seemed inevitable. Then the Kennedy administration sent a resolution overture to the Russians, and that evening they accepted. However, they sent a communication the following day that was more belligerent and not accepting of the terms they had seemed to agree to! What to do? Well… On advice from Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the Administration ignored the second response as if it was never received and accepted the terms of the first one! Crisis averted! The word of God tells us in Proverbs 15:1- “A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.”
(I like the advice that the writer of ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul” gave- “Don’t’ sweat the small stuff” and following that he wrote “It’s all small stuff!”). In this new year, let us resolve to be true ambassadors of Peace, and help to ratchet the tensions of the world down a bit? Let us resolve to be ‘spiritual de-escalators’. Let us be the ones determined to have a soft answer! Let us have made up minds to patiently love our enemies! In these last and evil days when social media has given everyone a platform on all things great (mountain) and small (molehill) let us use the power of Love granted to us by Jesus, to move mountains, and expose molehills!
Blessings,
Pastor J.