THE BLOB STORY!           DFO 316B        10/74

         1. We know that God does not fail & will never let us down if we are trusting & obeying Him & operating according to His Will & what He knows is best. Therefore, when things begin to go awry we usually know that either He's trying to show us something or that we're missing the mark somewhere, failing in some area or mistaken in some way about the way we're doing things or not moving exactly the right direction in the way we're going about it.
         2. WITH THOSE OF US WHO REALLY LOVE THE LORD & ARE DOING OUR BEST to serve Him as best we know how, oftentimes at considerable personal sacrifice & even some measure of suffering, inconvenience, discomfort or simple dissatisfaction, we know that God loves us & is doing HIS best to help US if we're doing OUR best to help HIM.
         3. SO IF THINGS AREN'T GOING QUITE RIGHT WE CERTAINLY KNOW IT'S NOT GOD'S FAULT & that we must just not be getting our signals straight somehow or our wires are crossed somewhere in some way that's not suitable or pleasing to Him.
         4. SO OF COURSE THE FIRST THING TO DO IS TO LOOK AROUND & SEE & ASK HIM WHAT WE ARE DOING WRONG or how we could do it better or if we're making some kind of mistake or even in some way actually disobeying Him.
         5. SO OFTEN WE ARE CAUGHT IN A DILEMMA BECAUSE OF OUR OWN FAILURES to be prepared for emergencies, although God has often warned us many times of these very possibilities & that we should always be prepared for sudden & unexpected changes in circumstances & we should always have an alternative in mind or be ready so that we can switch over to something else or someone else or some way else or somewhere else etc., even at a moment's notice if need be!
         6. WE SOMETIMES MAKE SOME VERY FOOLISH & TOTALLY UNNECESSARY MISTAKES because of our own neglect to heed the warnings of the Lord & His Word!
         7. IT SEEMS THAT BLOB-BUSTING IS THE LORD'S & MY SPECIALTY, because we've had to do so much of it even from the earliest times, which all of you are too young to remember! Will we ever learn?--No, it doesn't seem so, because as fast as WE & the LORD can bust them up, YOU manage to run off & build'm AGAIN somewhere!--Blobs come & go, but are always rebuilt again by about the same people!
         8. SO PEOPLE & PLACES COME & GO, BUT THE BLOB SEEMS TO LIVE ON FOREVER!--Until next time the Lord blows on your blob to blow you out of it again! He is seemingly, ceaselessly trying to blow you out of your blobs, but almost endlessly & hopelessly, because we never seem to learn even from our own history or even our own memory what a mess we made LAST time with our LAST blob!
         9. WE SEEM EVER LEARNING BUT NEVER COMING TO A KNOWLEDGE that God blackballs, blacklists, blacks out, blames, blasts, blazes, blows on, tries to blockade & blitzkrieg & finally doesn't bless your bleary-eyed, bleating, bleeding, blemished, blithering, blighted, blinded, blinkin', blistering, block-headed, bloopin', blotted, blundering, blubbering, blustering, bloomin', bloody, blue-blooded, blood-suckin' blobs!
         10. WE CAN'T GET THE JOB DONE as long as we're loaded down with such a big blob of a mob that everybody's getting in everybody's way & nobody can get anything done because we're all too busy taking care of each other to take care of anything else.
         11. SO FOR GOD'S SAKE WHY DON'T WE GET THE POINT & follow God the way God has tried to show us from the beginning & every time He breaks up a new blob to this very day of His breaking up of our present ones!--GOD is AGAINST BLOBS! He doesn't like them, He doesn't want them, He keeps destroying them & keeps trying to keep us from rebuilding them because BLOBS are just NOT HIS PLAN!
         12. "HE THAT WITHHOLDETH, IT TENDETH TO POVERTY, BUT HE THAT SCATTERETH ABROAD, IT INCREASETH!"--Pro.11:24-25. You can't out-give God & you must keep giving OUT as fast as He gives IN or you'll soon be filled AGAIN to overflowing & become ANOTHER BLOB!
         13. YOU'LL SOON BE A BIG OLD BOTTLE SELFISHLY KEEPING ALL GOD GIVES until you stretch so big that a new blob has to burst again in order to scatter the contents amongst the thirsty & the hungry & the needy on needy fields where workers are so few & so needed He has to keep blowing YOU apart to supply THEM because you won't give them VOLUNTARILY & keep you down to the IDEAL size of only a DOZEN or two!
         14. AND HE HAS TO BLOW YOUR BLOB APART LIKE A BOMB to scatter you far enough that you won't reassemble another blob too soon again! But, you say, perhaps this is God's way of splitting the atom to start a chain reaction that will blow apart many other atoms & keep on scattering the parts all over the place?--But the trouble with us is we let the bomb grow too BIG BEFORE we allow it to explode so that it nearly blows US off the face of the Earth along WITH it!--Or out of our present quarters, city or country!--And then ALL is lost!
         15. SO WHY DON'T YOU LEARN TO DIVIDE SOONER when you're still smaller & it can be easily done without so much trouble & with time for plenty of planning & preparing instead of waiting until the last minute when your blob grows so big that it suddenly & unexpectedly blows up in your face & you with it! Why can't you keep the rules that we made that when you get to be OVER TWO DOZEN you should BEGIN DIVIDING into two, the new one in a different place!
         16. AGAIN WE SAY, DIVIDE & CONQUER THE WORLD or the World will divide & conquer you! This is what we've tried to show you again & again in these now almost innumerable Letters on the subject of keeping SMALL, DIVIDED & thus MULTIPLIED & scattered abroad throughout ALL the Earth! What is God going to have to DO to us to get us to DO it? How long can this go ON?
         17. IS YOUR HOUSE GETTING TOO SMALL FOR YOUR GROWING FAMILY?--MAYBE YOU'RE JUST GETTING TOO BIG FOR YOUR HOUSE & you need to send some of the older children out on their own to shift for themselves & build some NEW houses for NEW families! Is your building getting too SMALL for YOU?--Maybe you're just getting too BIG for your BUILDING like Alice in Wonderland & you need the potion that will make you small again?--Well, this is it!
         18. THAT'S WHY OUR LITTLE TINY HOMES IN THE FAR FOREIGN FIELDS ARE ACCOMPLISHING SO MUCH!--They have so few people each that they can spend most of their time on the Lord's Work & helping others & very little time on taking care of themselves!
         19. DIVIDE THOSE BIG BLOBS!--Send that excess personnel off to some other field or to do their job in some other place instead of looking around for a BIGGER building in which you can have an even BIGGER blob! DIVIDE that overgrown family & send those overgrown children out to find a JOB so they can get MARRIED & find ANOTHER house to rear their OWN families!
         20. THE GAME IS OVER, BLOBS!--In fact, the party's almost over too, & it's time for everybody to break up & go home to where they belong except for the guys who really need to live here & have a mighty good excuse for hangin' onto their seats! It's THEIR seats & THEIR house & they BELONG here & nobody else is supposed to live here but THEM so THEY can go back to WORK the next morning & get their JOBS done!
         21. AND IF YOUR HOME HAS BECOME SUCH A BIG BLOB as a result of so many parties & partying & too many guests so your house can't even hold'm all anymore, it's time for you to send some home or out to find a NEW home!--NOT a BIGGER home for ALL of you, but a SMALLER home for a FEW of you who can now go it on your own in some other needier area where you're needed!
         22. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE BOSS OR THE JOB, GET OUT & FIND YOURSELF A NEW JOB & BE YOUR OWN BOSS!--TRY it!--You'll LOVE it! I KNOW it, because I've DONE it & it really doesn't take much to do it--just a little family & a little faith & a little guts & a desire for a new horizon & a fresh field for the guy who's crazy enough to be the first to pioneer it!
         23. AND WHEN YOU GET TIRED OF PIONEERING THAT ONE & it's strong enough to stand on its own, then keep moving & pioneer ANOTHER!--Once a pioneer, always a pioneer!--Like ME. I get BORED with doing the same old thing day after day!--I've gotta write you a NEW Letter nearly EVERY DAY to stay fresh & inspired or I get restless & dissatisfied & grumpy & unhappy & want to do ANOTHER one that I know you need!
         24. SO IF YOUR HOME IS ALREADY SMALL ENOUGH & NEEDS YOU & your job is essential to it like mine, maybe you just need to give it a NEW TWIST each day & do something a little DIFFERENT!--Clean a new toilet, scrub a new floor, take care of a new baby, do a new wash, cook a new meal, write a new letter or teach a new class or sing a new song or fix a new car or make a new one out of the old one or a new job out of your old job!
         25. TRY A NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD IN YOUR LITNESSING or a new sales pitch or some new tactic you haven't tried before. You don't even have to leave your Home to be a PIONEER! You can pioneer something new every day if you PRAY! Do something DIFFERENT each day that you might not even have to do again tomorrow! Variety is the spice of life!
         26. I'M DISCOVERING SOMETHING DIFFERENT EVERY DAY!--Right where I am NOW!--New faces, new places, new things to do, new things to say & new people to say them to! We've even lived four different places in this one town! So there's always something different you can do to keep from becoming a SLOB of a BLOB YOURSELF, so FAT you can't even MOVE, so SLOW you can't even GO & in such a BOG you can't do the JOB!
         27. GET OUT OF YOURSELF & INTO OTHERS! Break up your own selfish blob & share yourself with others--or the BOGEY BLOB will GET you if you don't watch out!
         28. DON'T GET BLOBITIS YOURSELF! Keep moving, turning, changing & revoluting every single day!--And you WILL if you PRAY & ask GOD what to do today! For God's sake whatever you do, don't let that evil spirit of the blob possess you like the invaders or body snatchers! Don't let'm plant that blob idea in your brain, too!
         29. DON'T GET THE BLOB SPIRIT OR YOU'LL BE JUST ANOTHER BLOB YOURSELF, just another COG in the machine of another blundering blobbering blob!--And don't be a SLOBBERING SLOB either, going around crying on everybody's shoulder because you don't like things the way they are!--CHANGE'm!--Or GET OUT & start one of your OWN & run it the way YOU think it oughtta be run!
         30. JUST DON'T START ANOTHER BLOB, PLEASE! We've got too many of these already & we don't really need any more! We don't need more BLOBS!--We need more JOBS done in OTHER places! CLOBBER your BLOB with a job someplace ELSE, & do it TODAY!--Or the bogey blob'll GET you if you don't watch out!

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