Phil, you are right.  Our Lord is looking:

Luke 18:8  I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when
the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>EMPTY FAITH
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>                                By
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>                           Phil Scovell
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>                          COPYRIGHT 1994
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>                          By Phil Scovell
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>      My attention was always arrested by a huge transparent bin of
>chocolate candy kisses as a child.  It stood pretentiously in the
>center of the dime store that we often frequented.  It looked, as
>a kid, the height of a man and must have been at least four feet
>in diameter.  "How much would all those cost?" I used to wonder as
>I stood in front of the huge display and dreamed of eating all of
>those chocolates one at a time.  "I could climb inside that big
>barrel and be buried alive in sweets," I mused.
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>      One day I was in that same store with my mother and after
>searching for some things on the second floor of the department
>store, we walked down the steps to the main level.  There was the
>giant bin of candy chocolate kisses but someone had forgotten to
>replace the lid.  I looked right down inside the large container
>and could clearly see that the barrel was hollow.  The immense
>container had a cylinder of cardboard rolled up inside.  Only
>about two or three inches of candy lined the clear plastic walls;
>making passersby think the transparent drum was filled with the
>candy kisses.  It was a fake!  Somehow, though the barrel still
>contained lots of candy, I found myself disappointed.
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>      Years later I thought of that experience.  It was so
>challenging as a little boy to stand in front of that monstrous
>display of sweet candy and try to imagine its worth.  The little
>drops of chocolate were so numerous, their sweet scent was almost
>overwhelming.  The lights danced off their shiny foil wrappings
>and made the display seem so much more spectacular.  Imagine my
>disappointment when I discovered it was really only partly there;
>the whole barrel really wasn't filled with candy; most of it was,
>in fact, empty.
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>      I wonder if God sometimes looks down from above and discovers
>all the shine and glitter, not to mention the sweetness, is only
>on the outside; the center being empty (void) of what is seen from
>without.  If so, why not be filled with Him so what is seen is the
>whole of God's presence in our lives.
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>I Flew Kites With Jesus
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John

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