The Cookie Snatcher

12:59 AM / Posted by Bhebhe Lacson / comments (0)

While waiting at the airport terminal for her plane to begin boarding, a woman sat reading a newspaper. Earlier, she had purchased a package of cookies in the airport snack shop to eat after she got on the plane. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that the man sitting next to her was eating a cookie. She looked down and noticed that her package of cookies had been opened and the man was eating them.
The woman couldn't believe that the man would have such nerve as to eat her cookies. So that she wouldn't lose all of her cookies to the man, she slowly reached over, took a cookie, and ate one herself. To her amazement, the man continoued to eat more cookies. Getting more and more irritated, the woman removed all but one cookie from the package and ate them.
At that point, the man reached down and took the last cookie. Before eating it, though, he broke it in half and left half of the cookie for the woman. This made the woman so angry, she grabbed the empty package with half cookie and crammed it in her purse.
Then, to her shock, she noticed that there in her purse was her unopened package of cookies.
APPLICATION:
Sometimes when we judge or condemn other, we end up judging or condemning ourselves. The Bible speaks of this in Luke 6:37: "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned." Have you ever been too quick to pass judgment on another? When we do that, we put ourselveds in a precarious and often embarrasing position. Check out all the facts, ask questions, listen carefully, and give people the benefit of the doubt.

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The Society Woman

12:46 AM / Posted by Bhebhe Lacson / comments (0)

A good-looking society woman was invited to an expensive fund-raising dinner in New York City. she was seated next to a walthy lawyer. During the meal, they had a chance to get to know each other and were having a good time. when the meal was finishe, the lawyer leaned over and asked the woman if she would go to bed with hi for $10,000. The woman blushed but said that she would. The man then asked her if she would go to bed with him for $10. The woman was shocked and said, "What kind of a woman do you think I am?" The man responded, "My dear, we have already established that. Now we are merely deciding on the price."
APPLICATION
What's your price? What would it take to casue you to sell out? We already know who we are. We are sinners who have been saved by faith in Christ. None of us is immune to sinfu behavior. Even Paul the apostle stumbled and fell. Peter, when faced with possible persecution at the time of the Crucifixion, denied Christ three times. He had his price.
Both Peter and Paul grew in their faith, though, becoming a strong and courageous. Bot of them died as martyrs because no amount of money, no amount of pain could cause them to turn their backs on their Lord.
Some of us are fair-weather Christians. We stick with Christ until something better comes up, or until the going gets rough. Our goal as Christians is to allow Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to make us into the kind of people who are strong, firm, and steadfast in faith. (See I Peter 5:10)

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