This one should keep us all thinking.
I chose #2, now you pick one. Scripture tells us that it is the
FOOL who says in his heart that there is no God.
This is a true story of something that happened just a few years
ago at USC.
There was a professor of philosophy there who was a deeply
committed atheist.
His primary goal for one required class was to spend the entire
semester to
prove that God couldn't exist.
His students were always afraid to argue with him because of his
impeccable logic.
Sure, some had argued in class at times, but no one had ever really
gone against him because of his reputation.
At the end of every semester on the last day, he would say to his
class of 300 students, 'If there is anyone here who still believes
in Jesus, stand up!'
In twenty years, no one had ever stood up. They knew what he was
going to do next. He would say, 'Because anyone who believes in God
is a fool'.
If God existed, he could stop this piece of chalk from hitting the
ground and breaking Such a simple task to prove that He is God, and
yet He can't do it.'
And every year, he would drop the chalk onto the tile floor of the
classroom and it would shatter into a hundred pieces.
All of the students would do nothing but stop and stare.
Most of the students thought that God couldn't exist. Certainly, a
number of Christians had slipped through, but! For 20 years, they
had been too afraid to stand up.
Well, a few years ago there was a freshman who happened to
enroll.
He was a Christian, and had heard the stories about his
professor.
He was required to take the class for his major, and he was afraid.
But for three months that semester, he prayed every morning that he
would have the courage to stand up no matter what the professor
said, or what the class thought.
Nothing they said could ever shatter his faith...he hoped.
Finally, the day came. ! The professor said, 'If there is anyone
here who still believes in God, stand up!' The professor and the
class of 300 people looked at him, shocked, as he stood up at the
back of the classroom.
The professor shouted, 'You FOOL!!!
If God existed, he would keep this piece of chalk from breaking
when it hit the ground!'
He proceeded to drop the chalk, but as he did, it slipped out of
his fingers, off his shirt cuff, onto the pleat of his pants, down
his leg, and off his shoe. As it hit the ground, it simply rolled
away unbroken. The professor's jaw dropped as he stared at the
chalk. He looked up at the young man, and then ran out of the
lecture hall.
The young man who had stood, proceeded to walk to the front of the
room and shared his faith in Jesus for the next half hour. 300
students stayed and listened as he told of God's love for them and
of His power through Jesus.
You have 2 choices:
1. Never look at it again.
2. Pass this along to your Christian and non-Christian friends,
giving them encouragement we all need every day
When you choose option 2, you have chosen to STAND UP
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a
laugh, this is a little different:
This is not intended to be a joke, it's not funny, it's intended to
get you thinking.............
Isn't it funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then
wonder why the world's going to hell.
Isn't it funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question
what the Bible says.
Isn't it funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do
not have to believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible says. Or
is it scary?
Isn't it funny how someone can say 'I believe in God' but still
follow Satan (who, by the way, also 'believes' in God ).
Isn't it funny how you can send a thousand jokes through e-mail and
they spread like wildfire,
But when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people
think
twice about sharing.
Isn't it funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely
through cyberspace, but the public discussion of Jesus is
suppressed in the school and workplace.
Isn't it funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday,
but be an invisible Christian the rest of the week.
Are you laughing? !
Isn't it funny how when you go to forward this message, you will
not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure
what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to
them.
Isn't it funny how I can be more worried about what other people
think of me than what God thinks of me.
