Differences

Wow if this isn't one of the toughest life skills to accomplish. There has been much happening in life lately that it makes my head spin. Why is it so hard to understand that we as believers are to be 'different' from the world and not embrace it? Why is it that when you try to change in daily life, those around you expect your feet to NEVER slip? Why is it that . . . . it is so difficult? WHY!?

Because the world sees it as "foolishness". Because it would mean "I have to give up _________ (fill in the blank with what you think it could 'cost you') and I just can't do that."
To be friends with the world is a dangerous thing if we don't have a walk with the Lord.
There was this professor one day who had been standing on a very high table and awaited his class to arrive. Upon the pupils arrival and bewilderment of the oddity of him standing in the center of the table, they sat puzzled awaiting the explanation. The professor asked for three volunteers. Out of those three he picked different physical physics, one very muscular athlete, one average physically fit individual and one petite in stature young lady. He asked each one to try and pull him down off of the table after he first tried to pull them up on to the tabletop with him. The three individuals were to not assist him in the attempt to be lifted up. It was very difficult for him to lift them up to the table to be beside himself and each one didn't quite make it totally - only one but with great exertion of physical efforts with the cost of scrapes and scratches along the way for both of them. After resting for a few minutes he then he asked each of them to try and pull him down but he was allowed to give resistance. Each one came and with not a lot of difficulty all three were successful in their efforts to bring the professor off of the tabletop. He then asked the pupils to sit down and write down what happened. Who was it successful for the pupils and the professors' attempts and why? Some gave it the explanation of the Law of physics, others because of the fitness of each human being, and so forth. After they finished writing he asked for one other volunteer, he picked another pupil who was average height, built and strength. He had them come up to the table and asked again for the three again to try to pull them down and vice verse. He was successful in bringing all three students up and the three had a much more difficult time attempting to bringing the professor down off the table. Again he asked them to write what happened this time.

What do you think?

I'll finish with "The rest of the story tomorrow". :-)