The Cream of the Crop!
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Written by Danny Bunn,B.A. (Born-Again believer in the Lord
Jesus Christ)
Chapter 11
Shinning lights in darken corners
Joe turns to Cindy as they are heading for the back. "Cindy,
why are you walking so slow?" Cindy looks at Joe, "Cramps, I
guess!" Joe just says, "Oh!" They get to where the others are
eating lunch and Joe introduces Cindy to some of the ones who
have never met her. He gets to Jerry. Jerry shakes her hand and
goes into his animal protection spill. Joe continues taking her
to others to meet, he doesn't want to get into it with Jerry
again, not now. After she meets the ones that she never met, they
go over to a spot to eat lunch. Joe sits down and says, "Cindy,
you sure you are all right?" She says, "Yes Joe, I am just
feeling a little tired, I guess." Joe prays over the meal and for
Cindy. They then eat and discuss different things for the future.
The conversation goes to children and Cindy asks him when would
he like to have children. Joe tells Cindy that he thinks kids are
neat but maybe in a couple of years. Cindy agrees. He asks her
why did she bring that up. Cindy tells him that she was just
curious. They finish off their lunch. Joe hugs Cindy and she
leaves for the house. She gets back to her place and cleans the
dishes left out last night. That laminaria feels a little strange
in her. She goes into the livingroom to sit down for a while. She
starts to read some in her KJV Bible again. She turns back to
Psalm 139 that she was reading at Joe's work to continue on where
she left off. She finds where she was reading when Judy came up
to her and she starting talking with her. It was verse 12, she
goes back to thinking about that verse. "Yes, Lord you see me in
the night time as well as in the day time, you see me wherever I
am at or whatever I am doing. You will never leave me or forsake
me. Cool!"
She looks down to read the next verse and as she does
the phone rings. She grabs it and says, "Joe and Cindy's place,
children of the most high God!" The person on the other end says,
"What did you say?" Cindy repeats it. The girl says, "Oh! Cindy
this is Judy. I had to call you and ask you a few more questions
about our discussion today. You were telling me about being
married is really no different that just living together unless
there was a strong committment to God or something like that."
Cindy goes on to explain that without a God then there is really
no reason to be committed to one another, there is really no
right or wrong. She further explains that there are many who are
true to one another who don't know God but it isn't because God
tells them to, just because they want to. They don't want a
different mate, they are content with the one they have but what
if they weren't, what would keep them from leaving their mate.
Common sense tells me nothing if they do not know God. There are
no absolutes without him. If we came from monkeys then we would
have the same morals, absolutes that they have. Judy was halfway
following Cindy. She then says, "But Cindy, I do believe in God.
I pray pretty often." Cindy goes on to tell Judy that she prayed
at times too, before she was born-again but it was just a
religious activity not really a relationship thing. Cindy then
tells her that many people pray but that doesn't mean they know
God, they know of him, they know he exists but that is as far as
it goes. There has to be a relationship with him. We must be
born-again. Judy stops Cindy, "What do you mean, born-again?"
Cindy tells Judy the story in the Bible of Jesus talking with
Nicodemus and Nicodemus was a very religious man but Jesus told
him that he must be born again. Using the illustration, Cindy
seeks to show that religion doesn't save a person. Many religious
people don't know God just as Nicodemus was religious. They must
have new life from above and that is accomplished when they
receive Jesus into their lives. Judy then tells Cindy that she
was baptized and confirmed. Cindy tells Judy that it is just
another religious thing and it doesn't save. Jesus is the One who
saves, rituals, water baptism, sacraments, whatever we can come
up with doesn't save. We seek to put something in the place of
the Almighty God to gain satisfaction from him, something that we
do in our own sinful strength and it will not work.
Cindy continues to talk to Judy for about an hour. Light is
going forth in darken corners of an office. Joe comes into the
house as Cindy is just about to let Judy go. Cindy's Bible is
sitting on the couch beside her and Joe picks it up and says,
"What have you been reading?" Cindy tells Joe that she has been
trying to finish up Psalm 139 but there has been one interruption
after another. Joe says, "Well, I am here now and you will get to
finish now just as soon as you fix me a glass of tea. Cindy says,
"Joe?" Joe says, "Okay, I will fix me a glass of tea and I will
be right back." He goes into the kitchen as Cindy is shaking her
head.
