Triple C News - June 9, 2022
Hey, everyone!
What an awesome day!!! A light wind sweeping the sky soooo blue! With the awesome rain we’ve had in the evenings, my lawn is soooo green and looking so good!! Altho’ it’s not that difficult! If everyone would just over-seed in October, keep their mower blade sharp, and set your grass height setting as high as it can go, everyone’s lawn can look good!
Like mine!
I mean, I don’t want to toot my own horn, but…
“You don’t want to WHAT?? Toot your own WHAT?? What does that even mean??”
Oh. “Toot my own horn”? It’s an expression…Maybe people don’t use it as much as they did “back in the day”.
Sometimes people used to say, “Blow your own trumpet” and than it morphed into “toot your own horn”
It basically means bragging about yourself, right?
“How do I know?? You’re the one who said it!”
In the 1500’s they blew trumpets when the king was on his way and about to arrive…
And a coupla centuries later, a guy in a history of Australia, writing about a fella who just arrived there, said that he showed up “blowing his OWN trumpet”! I think it means making a lotta fuss about yourself that would be more appropriate coming from the lips of others!
Altho’ one of our Founding Fathers wrote…
“I think modesty is highly overrated as a virtue — my motto is ‘Toot your own horn lest it never be tooted’.”
That’s the spirit!
(Wait! No it’s not!)
Altho…
There are moments when God wants you blowing that horn! Even if it’s you blowing yours! There are times when you should toot away!
In fact I was reading about it this morning in…let’s see…There it is! The Book of Numbers, chapter 10:
“Make two trumpets out of silver…”
They were supposed to blow these trumpets for three occasions.
1) When it was time to gather everyone together and get ready to go wherever God led them…
2) If they were fighting in a battle and it wasn’t going so well and they wanted “God’s attention” to their predicament. “Sound the trumpets!…Then you will be remembered by the Lord your God and rescued from your enemies…”
(Actually, He never forgot them and always knew when things went wrong. Blowing the trumpet was just another way of saying, “HELP!!”)
And 3)…
(This is the unexpected one…)
“When you’re rejoicing…sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings…and these will be a memorial before the Lord your God.”
Wow!!
Burnt offerings were the ones that expressed your devotion to Him! When you do something for Him, because you love Him and not for any other reason, toot your own horn!
To Him!
It’s a way to say to Him, “Look, Dad!! Did You see that?! Huh? Did Ya??…It was just for You!”
And fellowship offerings were the ones you brought to Him to say, “I don’t necessarily want/need anything and I’m not really confessing any mess-ups right now. I just want to be close to You. I just want to say, “I love You”
You might not want to “toot your own horn” and post a picture of your coffee, your open Bible and journal in the morning on Instagram to let everyone know you talked to Jesus today but you can sure “blow your horn” to Him…
and makes sure He knows (He does!)……
that you were there in His presence (He was there too!)…
and that you had a wonderful time with Him! (He did too! With you!)
So, if it’s only for Him to hear, toot away!
It’s music to His ears!