The Supreme Climb - Oswald Chambers
A person’s character determines how he interprets God’s will (see Psalm 18:25-26 ). Abraham interpreted God’s command to mean that he had to kill his son, and he could only leave this traditional belief behind through the pain of a tremendous ordeal. God could purify his faith in no other way.
If we obey what God says according to our sincere belief, God will break us from those traditional beliefs that misrepresent Him. There are many such beliefs which must be removed-for example, that God removes a child because his mother loves him too much. That is the devil’s lie and a travesty on the true nature of God! If the devil can hinder us from taking the supreme climb and getting rid of our wrong traditional beliefs about God, he will do so. But if we will stay true to God, God will take us through an ordeal that will serve to bring us into a better knowledge of Himself.
The great lesson to be learned from Abraham’s faith in God is that he was prepared to do anything for God. He was there to obey God, no matter what contrary belief of his might be violated by his obedience. Abraham was not devoted to his own convictions or else he would have slain Isaac and said that the voice of the angel was actually the voice of the devil. That is the attitude of a fanatic.
If you will remain true to God, God will lead you directly through every barrier and right into the inner chamber of the knowledge of Himself. But you must always be willing to come to the point of giving up your own convictions and traditional beliefs.
Don’t ask God to test you.
Never declare as Peter did that you are willing to do anything, even "to go . . . both to prison and to death" ( Luke 22:33 ). Abraham did not make any such statement— he simply remained true to God, and God purified his faith.
Chil-ren's perspective of the Bible
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Imagine yourself to be the nun (or the "Head" of the nun...MWAHAHAHA!) that is sitting at her desk grading these papers all the while trying to keep a straight face and maintain her composure!
The following statements were written by chil-ren from a Catholic Elementary School for a test where they were asked questions about the Old and New Testaments. The statements have not been retouched or corrected.
Icorrect spellng has been deliberatly lfet in.
1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATH OFF.
2. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH'S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK. NOAH BUILT AND ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS.
3. THE JEWS WERE A PROUD PEOPLE AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH UNSYMPATHETIC GENITALS. (???)
4. SAMPSON WAS A STRONGMAN WHO LET HIMSELF BE LED ASTRAY BY A JEZEBEL LIKE DELILAH.
5. SAMSON SLAYED THE PHILISTINES WITH THE AXE OF THE APOSTLES.
6. MOSES LED THE JEWS TO THE RED SEA WHERE THEY MADE UNLEAVENED BREAD WHICH IS BREAD WITHOUT ANY INGREDIENTS.
7, THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP TO MOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. (*ROFL)
8. THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS WAS WHEN EVE TOLD ADAM TO EAT THE APPLE. (Men, "listen" to you wives)
9. THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS THOU SHALT NOT ADMIT ADULTERY. (the first loophole in the 10 commandments)
10. MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHED CANADA. THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN THE BATTLE OF GERITOL. (I would have died too if I had to walk that far on foot...)
11. THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM. (MWAHAHAHAHA!)
12. DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT THE FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES. (MWAHAHAHAHA X2!)
13. SOLOMON, ONE OF DAVIDS SONS, HAD 300 WIVES AND 700 PORCUPINES. (MWAHAHAHAHA x3!!)
14. WHEN MARY HEARD SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, SHE SANG THE MAGNA CARTA.
15. WHEN THE THREE WISE GUYS FROM THE EAST SIDE ARRIVED THEY FOUND JESUS IN THE MANAGER. (some sort of a wise guy??)
16. JESUS WAS BORN BECAUSE MARY HAD AN IMMACULATE CONTRAPTION.
17. ST. JOHN THE BLACKSMITH DUMPED WATER ON HIS HEAD.
18. JESUS ENUNCIATED THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH SAYS TO DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO ONE TO YOU. HE ALSO EXPLAINED A MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY SWEAT ALONE.
19. IT WAS A MIRICLE WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND MANAGED TO GET THE TOMBSTONE OFF THE ENTRANCE.
20. THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THE LORD WERE CALLED THE 12 DECIBELS.
21. ONE OF THE OPPOSSUMS WAS ST. MATTHEW WHO WAS ALSO A TAXIMAN. (BWAHAHAHAHA!)
22. ST. PAUL CAVORTED TO CHRISTIANITY, HE PREACHED HOLY ACRIMONY WHICH IS ANOTHER NAME FOR MARRAIGE.
23. CHRISTIANS HAVE ONLY ONE SPOUSE. THIS IS CALLED MONOTONY.
And then there was Orchard Road...
Wisma Atria and Forum Galleria...two different places on the same side of the street, but at different ends of Orchard Road. Somebody please help me out here? Tell me the similarities please...
Supposed to meet my ex-manager at Wisma, and I ended up at Forum. In my mind I kept thinking that Forum was Wisma, and somehow, Wisma was Forum too...where was the link?!
I parked the vehicle, entered the mall and walked around for a bit, waiting for time to pass till my ex-manager arrives. Then the time came to search for the foodcourt and all I found was a care center. Something aint right. Sent a text message to confirm meeting place and it suddenly dawned on me that I was in the wrong place at the right time...DoH!!
Funny right? "Just For Laughs" ...
