1) What is the all time best selling book?
2) Assuming that the vowels are A E I O & U,
name a six-letter word that has no vowels?
3) What's the pattern to these numbers?
8 5 4 9 1 7 6 3 2 0
4) The shape of my form will waver and bend,
From the things I'm destroying
And the things I will rend.
My color will vary from bright red and blue,
The power I'm using will dictate my hue.
2) Assuming that the vowels are A E I O & U,
name a six-letter word that has no vowels?
3) What's the pattern to these numbers?
8 5 4 9 1 7 6 3 2 0
4) The shape of my form will waver and bend,
From the things I'm destroying
And the things I will rend.
My color will vary from bright red and blue,
The power I'm using will dictate my hue.
5) Some say I changed the course of ALL history.
My medicine is powerful and is almost free.
It is fabled I inspired a very heavy truth.
And Bill Gates was a little uncouth.
My medicine is powerful and is almost free.
It is fabled I inspired a very heavy truth.
And Bill Gates was a little uncouth.
6) You may praise your good fortune and curse all you hate,
Yet I rule all your chaos and gamble your fate.
By some I'm avoided by others I'm game,
Called by fat or slim, my meanings the same.
Yet I rule all your chaos and gamble your fate.
By some I'm avoided by others I'm game,
Called by fat or slim, my meanings the same.
7) My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured,
Thin, I am quick,
Fat, I am slow,
Wind is my foe.
What am I?
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I serve by being devoured,
Thin, I am quick,
Fat, I am slow,
Wind is my foe.
What am I?
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for your convenience & felicity but
no machination or peeking allowed.
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1) What is the all time best selling book?
ReplyDelete2) Assuming that the vowels are A E I O & U,
name a six-letter word that has no vowels?
3) What's the pattern to these numbers?
8 5 4 9 1 7 6 3 2 0
4) The shape of my form will waver and bend,
From the things I'm destroying
And the things I will rend.
My color will vary from bright red and blue,
The power I'm using will dictate my hue.
5) Some say I changed the course of ALL history.
My medicine is powerful and is almost free.
It is fabled I inspired a very heavy truth.
And Bill Gates was a little uncouth.
6) You may praise your good fortune and curse all you hate,
Yet I rule all your chaos and gamble your fate.
By some I'm avoided by others I'm game,
Called by fat or slim, my meanings the same.
7) My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured,
Thin, I am quick,
Fat, I am slow,
Wind is my foe.
What am I?
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Riddle Answers:
1) The Bible
2) Rhythm
3) They are in alphabetical order...
4) Fire/flame
5) Apple (word nowhere in Genesis)
6) Chance
7) A Candle
The first time I really heard the words I was in high school, living
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was quite certain God wanted me to be instead. The list in my head
was long and challenging, and I was so used to falling short that I was
growing tired of even trying. But on this day the hymn struck me as a
prayer out of my own inharmonious experience:
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
At the time, the thought was comforting in its confirmation that I was not
alone. It was an echo of the apostle Paul's words and a reminder that I
was not the only believer stumbling along the ways of Christ: "I do not
understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate....I can will what is right, but I cannot do it" (Romans
7:15,18). In my struggle to live up to the designation of Christian, I
could, in good company, admit my condition before God and pray for God's
help.
Yet far more than the assurance that we are not alone as people who
struggle, we are assured by the promise of God in the midst of that
struggle, in the midst of weakness and wandering. In the words of one
confession, "[O]ur good God...set out to find humanity, though humanity,
trembling all over, was fleeing from God."(1) At the deepest levels of
our humanity, it is true that we are prone to wander, prone to sin, prone
to flee from God. But it was in our deepest state of ruin, our deepest
plunge into sinfulness, when God stepped forward unwilling to let us
remain in such a state. As Paul writes in Romans 5:8, "God proves his
love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us." Long
before we could even articulate our lostness, God in his mercy set out to
find us, setting forth a plan to make right within us all that is awry.
In this, we discover that faith itself, like the accomplishment of Christ
on the Cross, is a gift given not out of our own merit, but out of the
heart of God. We are brought to belief by the power of the Spirit and the
God who opens our eyes to the work of Christ in the first place. Thus,
even in my struggle to live as I believed a faithful Christian should live
was, in fact, the promise of God's presence to my troubled teenage mind.
In these feelings of regret that I had wandered, in my deep despair that I
had fallen away from God, was the sign of God Himself, who never left. The
Holy Spirit was perhaps convicting me to repent of whatever had caused me
to notice a separation, but in this, God Himself was the one
convicting--not my list of rules or the expectations of the church--and my
conviction only served as a sign that God had followed where I wandered.
The recognition that we stray from the God we love in and of itself
is a sign of faith and the assurance that God is near. For faith is a
gift, and even doubt, as Lord Tennyson notes, has a "sunnier side."
Whether the Spirit is calling our attention to a faith that is based on
weak foundations or calling us to remove an obstacle we have placed before
the Cross, God is near. Though we wander and doubt, though we attempt to
flee from God's presence or settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even
here, God's hand upholds the wanderer.(2) There is good reason Paul
admonishes the Philippians to work out their own salvation "with fear and
trembling" even as he reminds them powerfully to trust that "it is God who
is at work" (Philippians 2:12-13).
The story of redemption is the story of a good Father who delights in
giving his children good gifts. In the words of a hymn God has used to
encourage many wanderers:
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let that grace now like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
The Father has indeed not only accepted the seal of Christ, but the Spirit
continues to work this gift within us, accommodating us in our weakness,
and calling us further into the life of the kingdom of God.
Jill Carattini is senior associate writer at Ravi Zacharias
International Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia.
(1) Belgic Confession, Article, 17.
(2) See Psalm 139.
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