The Answers Are Simple, If You Know Them.


By Phil Scovell






As I entered high school, my first science class was with a man by
the name of Mr. Rubin king.  The one thing I learned quickly about
this man was he enjoyed teaching and his students as well.  what I
especially liked, was the way Mr. Rubin king gave exams.

     "Every three weeks," he said, during the first week of
school, "we are going to have a test.  This test will be made up
of 10 questions and the exact answers to these 10 questions will
be from your text book reading assignments for that period of
time.  A day or two before the exam, I will tell you what each
question is going to be on the exam.  Furthermore, I will even
tell you the exact answers.  Just to be on the safe side, I will
also tell you the exact page where the answers are found.  I want
the answers I give you from the book.  If they are not exactly as
reported in the book, and if they are not exactly as I have
explained them to you, you will get that question marked wrong.  I
will also ask if you have any questions about these answers that
we will always go over a day or two before the test.  If you do
exactly as I have instructed concerning my exams, you will get a
perfect grade for this science course."

     Only being about 14 at the time, I figured this guy must be
telling the truth.  So, when the day came to review the 10
questions, I wrote down, word for word, the answer he gave for
each.  I included the page numbers and that night, looked them up
and read them from the book.  Guess what?  I got 100 percent on
every single test and a big fat A for my grade at the end of the
school term.

     During the early days of 1982, I began asking God some
questions for which I wanted, truly needed, answers.  I
discovered something, back then, I am often reminded of now.  His
answers are always so simple, a child could understand him.  "What
about theology?" what about it?  You don't think explaining
theology is a problem for Jesus?  Oh, sure.  You can make it as
complicated as you wish.  You can add a lot of religious
practices, rules and regulations, personal principles, daily
exercises, governing policies, and denominational laws, if you
wish.  You can even assign a day of the week to go to a building
made with hands, sing only certain songs, read from only certain
Bibles, burn scented, or unscented, candles or incense, kneel
before specific types of statues, where robes, tithe, and even
carry a large print Bible to church.  For that matter, you can
sacrifice animals, cut your skin, and bow down to idles made of
wood, clay, and stone, if that's what you want.  The problem is,
however, these types of things have a tendency to distract us from
His eternal presence in our life instead of bringing us closer.
Why don't we just do what the Teacher says and let Him grade our
sincerity?




Jesus Is Your Problem, Not The Devil.  Luke 12:5
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