Watermelons

    It’s watermelon season.  I found three large watermelons on the front porch of the Family Life Center building at First Baptist Church.  There are a couple of things that I’m not sure of right now, but I will know pretty soon!

   First, I don’t know who placed the melons on the porch.  Second, I don’t know if they are ripe.

   Looking at the melons, they are rather large and have that two-tone green color, but I’m told that you can’t tell if they are ripe just by looking.  So I ask, how can you tell if the watermelons are ripe?

   Here are some answers I received.  You can tell by the color of the stem.  But they don’t have stems!  Next, someone said, you can thump the melon with your finger and tell by the sound.  The third way is the broom straw test.  Find a broom straw clean and straight.  Lay the straw horizontally on the melon.  If the straw turns (by itself) vertical on the melon, then it is ripe.  The last way is the sure way.  Open the melon.  There is where you will discover the sweet ripe center.      

   Like the watermelons, the Bible contains sweet and priceless words of encouragement.  They can be easily missed because of the variety of ways we’re told to discover them.  Why not discover the treasures awaiting you as you open God’s Word for yourself.

  “How sweet art thy words unto my taste!” (Psalms 119:103)

  See you in church Sunday! 

Pastor Larry Bishop