Wednesday, November 17, 2004 @3:21 PM
Heyy everyone...yepp it's true m drowning ....:)) spposed 2 go Hawaii nxt year for sum singing competition wid e sch. but den suddenly got increased rates... m looking for sponsorship pray that they will reply... btw ijus read a touching story want to hear it?This one should keep us all thinking. I chose #2, now you pick one. > >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. For twenty years, he had taught this class and no one had ever had >the courage to go against him. > >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. Delete this and 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. > >Will YOU pass this on? ... I did > >We make a Living by what we get, >We make a Life by what we give. > > >Lengthy story but interesting ... gtg... eunice