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1) I can only live when there is light, although
I die if the light shines on me. What am I?
2) The more you take, the more you leave behind.
What are they?
3) What did the oceans say when they hadn't
seen each other in years?
4) A potato's key tool, I have all the power.
I am generally used on the half or full hour.
If my cells were deceased or lost or the such,
My partner would only respond to your touch.
What am I?
5) Never resting, never still.
Moving silently from hill to hill.
It does not walk, run or trot,
All is cool where it is not.
What is it?
6) My first three letters are a term in golf,
While my second, third, and fourth are drawings.
My first four are less than a whole,
And all of me is a celebration.
What am I?
7) First, think of a person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
the middle of middle, and end of end?
Finally, give me the sound often heard
during the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
What creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
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One of the most humbling moments in my life happened during a soccer match.
ReplyDeleteAt a critical moment in the game, I had to decide whether to go it alone
or let a better positioned teammate attempt an almost guaranteed goal; a
rare treat in soccer. Sadly, the split seconds available for the decision
were enough for my ego to override my better judgment. Unwilling to pass
on the glory of scoring the winning goal, I made the wrong decision and
lost the ball, costing the team an important game in the process.
Ironically, I am inclined to believe that the consequences for me would
have been much worse if I had managed to score the goal. Though quite
humiliating, that terrible mistake gave me a glimpse into my own soul in a
way that might have been impossible if I had actually led the team to a
win. While it is hard to assert our egos in the midst of failure and
hardship, the ugliness of our self-centeredness can be easily camouflaged
in the motives and methods of our success, leaving us blind to our own
insuperable finitude. When our pursuit for success is severed from a
healthy sense of our chronic indebtedness, achieving success can instill
in us a measure of entitlement foreign to our true identity. Such a
pitfall is even more consequential in our spiritual lives since it is
harder to distinguish between self-serving motives and genuine zeal for
the Lord. Unlike the gaping sins of the prodigal son, the dutiful son's
alienation from the father comes neatly packaged in obedience and
commitment, the very treasures we long to lay before our heavenly Father.
In spite of the fact that our Lord prayed fervently for unity among his
followers, the visible church is often a conglomeration of competing
factions, each equally convinced of its solitary possession of divine
favor. Those who seek signs and wonders through the Holy Spirit are
usually suspicious of those who emphasize exegetical approaches to the
Scriptures. Christian scholars are sometimes content just to talk to each
other, and the uncanny tendency of apologists to sniff out rotten
doctrines, real or imagined, is not always appreciated.
As a result, not only do we squander valuable benefits of dedicated
teamwork within the household of faith, we also lose our edge in our
witness to a broken world. Despite the monumental gains made in biblical
research and translation, biblical illiteracy is still a high-ranking
concern, and the frequent outbursts of oft-unfounded accusations from our
detractors succeed in rattling the cage for not a few followers of Christ.
While outcasts and sinners braved insults to seek refuge in Jesus, they
bolt from our divided efforts to reach them and reject God because they
mistake us for Him.
When being right becomes an end in itself, we lose sight of our own need
for God's grace--a need that would be there even if we were faultless.
Instead of recognizing that orthodoxy, though indispensable, is only the
map of a journey which we must travel towards God, confidence in our
knowledge of the truth becomes the missing link in our quest for
self-sufficiency. We partition God's comprehensive program for his people
into various segments and guard our turfs with Herculean zeal. With a
little practice, we become so adept at applying our preferred standards
that we can accomplish the feat with our eyes closed. Having zeroed in on
what we are certain to be our Father's most vexing pet peeves, we stand
poised not only to pronounce the verdict on those who offend Him but also
to pound the gavel on his behalf. Before long, we, like Elijah, become
convinced that we are the only ones who are faithful to God while all of
his other children have lost their way.
Probably the best antidote to such spiritual calluses among loyal laborers
in God's vineyard is a healthy appreciation of the all-sufficiency of our
Father and our exalted status as his humble children--a theological gem
that is beautifully captured by C.S. Lewis in his book, Prince
Caspian. When the children are reunited with Aslan after many years,
Lucy expresses surprise that Aslan looks bigger. Aslan responds, "I am
not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger."(1) What a relief
to remember that no amount of expertise on our part can ever diminish the
glory of God or cause us to outlive his fatherly indulgence!
Pure, unadulterated motives may lie beyond the reach of even the most
devout among us, but the intentional recognition of our humble place in
deference to the majesty of our Maker is an indispensable ingredient in
our service to Him and others. It was neither out of false piety nor
enslavement to sin that both Daniel and Nehemiah included themselves in
their profound prayers of forgiveness on behalf of their sinful people
(Daniel 9 and Nehemiah 1:6). While I do not subscribe to the relativistic
"never judge anyone" maxim that greases the engine of the spirit of the
age, I am also convinced that "The one aim of the call of God is the
satisfaction of God, not a call to do something for Him."(2)
J.M. Njoroge is associate apologist at Ravi Zacharias International
Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia.
(1) C. S. Lewis, The Complete Chronicles of Narnia (New York:
HarperCollins, 1998), 259.
(2) Oswald Chambers, as quoted by Os Guinness in The Call: Finding
Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life (Nashville: W Publishing
Group, 2003), 41.
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1) I can only live when there is light, although
ReplyDeleteI die if the light shines on me. What am I?
2) The more you take, the more you leave behind.
What are they?
3) What did the oceans say when they hadn't
seen each other in years?
4) A potato's key tool, I have all the power.
I am generally used on the half or full hour.
If my cells were deceased or lost or the such,
My partner would only respond to your touch.
What am I?
5) Never resting, never still.
Moving silently from hill to hill.
It does not walk, run or trot,
All is cool where it is not.
What is it?
6) My first three letters are a term in golf,
While my second, third, and fourth are drawings.
My first four are less than a whole,
And all of me is a celebration.
What am I?
7) First, think of a person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
the middle of middle, and end of end?
Finally, give me the sound often heard
during the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
What creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
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ANSWERS:
1) A shadow
2) Footsteps
3) Long time no sea.
4) A TV Remote Control
5) Sun or Sunshine
6) Party
7) Spider
ReplyDeleteIf you stop believing what your professor told you had to be true
and if you start thinking for yourself you may come to some
conclusions you hadn't expected. You may find the Bible makes
more sense than you thought or were told to think. Allow yourself
to be ruined, ruined with regard to what you always thought could
be true. Can you believe what you don't understand? You and I
believe everyday what we don't understand unless it comes to
the issue of salvation. - - - Dr. Woodrow Kroll
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There is simply no historic foundation for the position that the
Framers intended to build the 'wall of separation' that was
constitutionalized in Everson. The 'wall of separation be-
tween church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history,
a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging.
It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.
- - - Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, William Rehnquist
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In 1796 the US Supreme Court issued this ruling, "By our form
of government, the Christian religion is the established religion,
and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed on
equal footing." Some 57 years later, after Congress was
petitioned to separate Christian principles from government,
in 1853 the House Judiciary Committee issued their formal
report, including these words: "In this age there is no substitute
for Christianity. This was the religion of the founders of the republic,
and they expected it to be the religion of their dependents. The
great vital, conservative elements in our system is the belief of
our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the gospel
of Jesus Christ." - - - Dr. Gerald Beavan
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"It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own
their dependence upon the overruling power of God
and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the
Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those
nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord."
-- President Abraham Lincoln
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Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment;
trust in money and you may have it taken from you;
but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in
time or eternity. - D.L. Moody
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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds.
Men and women live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies
into which they never enter and with their hand on the door latch
they die outside. GK Chesterton