A middle aged woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. While on the operating table she had a near death experience. Seeing God she asked "Is my time up?" God said, "No, you have another 40 years, 2 months and 8 days to live."
Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital and have a facelift, liposuction, and a tummy tuck. She even had someone come in and change her hair color. Since she had so much more time to live, she figured she might as well
make the most of it. After her last operation, she was released from the hospital. While crossing the street on her way home, she was killed by an ambulance.
Arriving in front of God, she demanded, "I thought you said I had another 40 years? Why didn't you pull me from out of the path of the ambulance?"
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God replied, "I didn't recognize you."
--story found circulating the Web.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled" (Matthew 5:6, NIV).
How true is the saying that what you see is what you get!
As Steve Goodier in his book, Are You Living on the Past?
shared how both the vulture and hummingbird fly over the
same desert. The vulture sees rotting flesh. The hummingbird
sees colorful desert plants.
What we hunger for and thrive on is what we look for and
find. Frederick Langbridge put it this way: "Two men look
out the same prison bars, one sees mud and the other stars."
If we hunger for evil, that's what we'll find.
If for good, that's what we'll find.
If for illicit love, that's what we'll find.
If for pure love, that's what we'll find.
If for righteousness, that's what we'll find, and
If we hunger for God, he is what we will find!
Suggested prayer: "Dear God, please give me a pure heart
so I will always hunger and seek after what is pure, what is
true, what is right, and after you. Gratefully, in Jesus' name.
Amen."
--Selected from Weekend Encounter by Dick Innes, ACTS International.
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