Thought for Today

[Zeta]

Who's your Daddy??

A seminary professor was vacationing with his wife in Gatlinburg , TN. One morning, they were eating breakfast at a little restaurant, hoping to enjoy a quiet, family meal. While they were waiting for their food, they noticed a distinguished looking, white-haired man moving from table to table, visiting with the guests. The professor leaned over and whispered to his wife, 'I hope he doesn't come over here.' But sure enough, the man did come over to their table.

'Where are you folks from?' he asked in a friendly voice.

' Oklahoma ,' they answered.

'Great to have you here in Tennessee ,' the stranger said.. 'What do you do for a living?'

'I teach at a seminary,' he replied.

'Oh, so you teach preachers how to preach, do you? Well, I've got a really great story for you.' And with that, the gentleman pulled up a chair and sat down at the table with the couple.

The professor groaned and thought to himself, 'Great .. Just what I need ....another preacher story!'

The man started, 'See that mountain over there? (pointing out the restaurant window). Not far from the base of that mountain, there was a boy born to an unwed mother. He had a hard time growing up, because every place he went, he was always asked the same question, 'Hey boy, Who's your daddy?' Whether he was at school, in the grocery store or drug store, people would ask the same question, 'Who's your daddy?'

He would hide at recess and lunch time from other students. He would avoid going in to stores because that question hurt him so bad. 'When he was about 12 years old, a new preacher came to his church. He would always go in late and slip out early to avoid hearing the question, 'Who's your daddy?'

But one day, the new preacher said the benediction so fast that he got caught and had to walk out with the crowd.

Just about the time he got to the back door, the new preacher, not knowing anything about him, put his hand on his shoulder and asked him, 'Son, who's your daddy?'

The whole church got deathly quiet. He could feel every eye in the church looking at him Now everyone would finally know the answer to the question, 'Who's your daddy?'

'This new preacher, though, sensed the situation around him and using discernment that only the Holy Spirit could give, said the following to that scared little boy.. 'Wait a minute! I know who you are! I see the family resemblance now, You are a child of God.'

With that he patted the boy on his shoulder and said, 'Boy, you've got a great inheritance. Go and claim it.'

'With that, the boy smiled for the first time in a long time and walked out the door a changed person. He was never the same again. Whenever anybody asked him, 'Who's your Daddy?' he'd just tell them , 'I'm a Child of God..''

The distinguished gentleman got up from the table and said, 'Isn't that a great story?'

The professor responded that it really was a great story!

As the man turned to leave, he said, 'You know, if that new preacher hadn't told me that I was one of God's children, I probably never would have amounted to anything!' And he walked away..

The seminary professor and his wife were stunned.. He called the waitress over & asked her, 'Do you know who that man was -- the one who just left that was sitting at our table?'

The waitress grinned and said, 'Of course.. Everybody here knows him. That's Ben Hooper. He's Governor of Tennessee !'

Someone in your life today needs a reminder that they're one of God's children!

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[Zeta]

Glad you enjoyed...will continue to add interesting ones.

And, so can you (smile).

[phkrause]

Now that's a wonderful story, thanks Zeta.

pk

[Zeta]

Man murders wife and buries kids alive

A Muslim man in Egypt killed his wife because she was reading the Bible

and then buried her with their infant baby and an 8-year old daughter.

The girls were buried alive! He then reported to the police that an

uncle killed the kids. 15 days later, another family member died.

When they went to bury him, they found the 2 little girls under the sand - ALIVE!

The country is outraged over the incident, and the man will be executed.

The older girl was asked how she had survived and she says:-

'A man wearing shiny white clothes, with bleeding wounds in his hands,

came every day to feed us. He woke up my mom so she could nurse my

sister,' she said. She was interviewed on Egyptian national TV, by

availed Muslim woman news anchor. She said on public TV, 'This was none

other than Jesus, because nobody else does things like this!'

Muslims believe Isa (Jesus) would do this, but the wounds mean He really

was crucified, and it's clear also that He is alive! But, it's also

clear that the child could not make up a story like this, and there is

no way these children could have survived without a true miracle. Muslim

leaders are going to have a hard time to figure out what to do with

this, and the popularity of the Passion movie doesn't help!

With Egypt at the center of the media and education in the Middle East ,

you can be sure this story will spread. Christ is still turning the

world upside down! The Lord says, 'I will bless the person who puts his trust in me.' Jeremiah 17

Mark 8:38 says, 'Therefore whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and my

Words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man shall

also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the

holy angels'.

[olger]

Snopes says false on the Muslim Miracle, but sometimes they appear to be looking for ways to dissent. Dunno...

G

[phkrause]

Wow interesting post Zeta. Praise the Lord.

pk

[Zeta]

The Alabaster Box

Do not keep the alabaster box of your love and friendship sealed up until your Friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness.

Speak approvingly, cheering words while their ears can hear them,

and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go.

*George W. Childs*

[Zeta]

GOOD

Live for something. Do good and leave behind you a monument of virtue

that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness,

love, and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with

year by year; you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.

*Chamlers*

[Zeta]

Equations

Two and two makes four..that is mathematics: hydrogen and oxygen form water..that is chemistry; Christ crucified is the power of God unto salvation..that is revelation. But how do you know? Put two and two together and you have four: count and see. Put hydrogen and oxygen together and you have water: test and you will prove it. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved: believe and you will know. Each demonstration is unanswerable in its own sphere.

*F. G. Penticost*

[Zeta]

School Hours

The Disciples were not losing time when they sat down beside their Master, and held quiet converse with him under the olives of Bethany, or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school hours; those were their feeding times. The healthiest Christian, the one who is best fitted for Godly living and Godly labors, is he who feeds most on Christ. Here lies the benefit of Bible reading.

*Evangelist*

[Guest]

Amen

[Zeta]

Thanks, dgrimms60.

We never stop learning.

Be Blessed.

[phkrause]

I like that, that's cool.

pk

[Zeta]

Enlightenment

The Bible as a book stands alone. There never was, nor ever will be,

another like it. As there is but one sun to enlighten the world naturally, so there is but one Book to enlighten the world spiritually.

May that Book become to each of us the man of our counsel, the guide of our journey, the inspiration of our thought, and our support and comfort in life and death.

*A. Galloway*

[Guest]

Amen

[Zeta]

Thanks, dgrimms60. You will be missed during your absence.

[phkrause]

I like that thought.

pk

[Zeta]

Thanks, pkrause.

[Zeta]

Garden

The Bible resembles an extensive and highly cultivated flower garden., where there is a vast variety and profusion of fruits and flowers, some of which are more essential or more splendid than others; but there is not a blade suffered to grow in it which has not its use and beauty in the system. Salvation for sinners is the grand truth presented

everywhere, and in all points of light; but the pure in heart sees a thousand traits of the, Divine character, of himself, and of the world:

some striking and bold, others cast as it were into the shade, and designed to be searched for and examined; some direct, others by way

intimidation or inference.

*Cecil*

[Zeta]

Thanks dgrimm60. I thought it was interesting and I love flower gardens.

[Zeta]

Foundations

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost,

that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

*Thoreau*

[Zeta]

Spiritual Resources

The man who has no refuge in himself, who lives, so to speak, in his front rooms, in the outer whirlwind of things and opinions, is not

properly a personality at all.

He floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no real, no convictions-such a man is a mere article of the world's furniture-a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient

servant of the air at rest, and the weathercock the humble servant of the air.

*Henri-Frederic Amiel*

[Zeta]

The Easiest Way

Napoleon said that a man who never makes a mistake never makes war. Those who content themselves with pointing out the mistakes and blunders

of those who are in the struggle, are making, themselves, the greatest of all blunders. Nothing is easier than fault finding. No talent, no

self-denial, no brains, no character are required to set up in the grumbling business

*Robert West*

[phkrause]

Good one Zeta, it kind of reminds of some that do all the complaining here.

pk

[Zeta]

Ditto!! pk