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By Terry R A Eissfeldt
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Did your mother have to measure each portion of pudding so no one felt they got the smallest one?
Did your father have to keep a time sheet with how long he threw the ball for Johnny and pushed the swing for Sally?
We’re always comparing every aspect of our lives in order to find how we’ve been taken advantage of.
She got the elevator. I got the shaft.
Unfortunately this is all to common to the human race.
Did you ever see the movie “The God’s Must Be Crazy”?
Someone in an airplane, high over the Kalahari Desert, throws out a Coke bottle. It lands amongst the Bushmen. They are completely isolated from civilization. At first everyone is intrigued and they find many uses for it. But, inevitably, it brings grief.
The woman fight over who gets to use it. The children argue and end up hitting each other. This behaviour is absolutely foreign to the Bushmen. They don’t even have a word for jealousy. So their leader decides to take it to the end of the world and give it back to the gods. As you can imagine he encounters many weird things along the way!
But think about what our God sent us. What He gave us.
We are born into sin.
God the Father sent His sinless Son into our world.
Because of the toxicity of sin our fate was death and total separation from God.
But Jesus took our place and died a most cruel death on a cross, and was separated from His Father.
And when He arose He brought a whole new order to the cosmos.
I bring sin, sickness, and sorrow to Him and He gives me purity, wholeness, and joy.
It’s hard to maintain my stance of being the victim and always ending up with the short end of the stick when I see what Jesus took on my behalf just because He loved me.
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As an opening sentence, consider grabbing the reader's attention with a catchy statement rather than a question. For ex: Something like... "Maybe it was that way in your home where even portions of pudding had to be carefully measured by Mom, so everyone felt they had received their fair share." Generally, asking the reader a question is similar to having a one-sided conversation with yourself:-)
because the reader cannot respond.
Again, consider this rather than a question:...
"Unfortunately, this is all too common to the human race, as the movie, "The Gods Must Be Crazy" illustrates.
Your last sentence was a good summary of your central point.
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you.
God bless~