The Cream of the Crop!
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Written by Danny Bunn,B.A. (Born-Again believer in the Lord
Jesus Christ)
Chapter 25
Men, Women, Sex, and Problems
Joe is in his sixth day of the fast and he didn't know if he
was going to make it through those first three days. What a
headache he had but he would just trust the Lord with his head as
he did with his stomach and his will. Those days were rough, it
did seem to get easier after that but he still had a desire for
food but it was submitted to the Lord, a desire nonetheless. Joe
has been spending his lunch breaks memorizing scripture and
talking with the Lord, he has memorized Jeremiah 15:16, which
says, "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was
unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by
thy name, O LORD God of hosts." He is beginning to understand
the importance of the word of God in his life and why God
compares it to food. He didn't know that food was so important
until he decided to go without it. Then he saw how important it
was.
Joe starts thinking, "How easy it is for us to take things
for granted, and we never know what tomorrow brings." It is like
Christians who are not feeding on the word of God, they are just
barely getting by as a man who doesn't hardly eat, he is just
barely getting by. Even though one is in the spiritual and the
other is in the physical, they are both just barely making it.
God wants us to do more than just get by, he wants us to live
overcoming, victorious lives and we will as we walk with the Lord
of life, Jesus Christ. Joe's mind comes back to the here and
now. He is almost at work. Joe speaks out loud, "Another day,
another dollar. I guess that I should say, another day another
$.25 for me and $.75 for the government."
He parks his car and goes inside to work. He is fifteen minutes
early so he goes to the coffee break area. Jerry and Tom are sitting
at a table drinking a cup of coffee. Joe says, "Good morning everybody!"
They look over at Joe and nod in unison. Joe pours himself a cup
of coffee water without the coffee and sits at a table close by.
Tom says, "Hey Joe, you can sit over here with us. We don't
bite." Joe says, "Oh, I am sorry, I figured that I might be
interrupting something so I just took another table." Tom says,
"No, we were just talking about death. Death regarding animals
and death regarding people. Tom was telling me that one deserves
to live just as much as the other. They are life and life is
life, there is no difference." Joe jumps in on that last
comment. "Jerry, if you really believe that then why didn't you
answer my comments the other day when I was talking about the
differences in animals and people." Jerry glances over at Joe
and says, "I didn't think it was worth arguing with you, Joe. I
have already shown you time and time again that they both bleed,
hurt, walk, even talk in their own language." "But Tom, you said
that you were a Christian and I studied it out like I told you
that I would and I got back with you and showed you that God
created mankind on a much higher level than he did animals and
because of the fall in the Garden, man acts lower than the
animals. I went on to show you that man are eternal creatures,
created in the image of God but now it is a fallen image stained
by sin. One again, you did not answer. So why are you now
telling Tom that animals and man are the same. You used to seek
to prove that to me using the bible and when I showed you what
the bible really had to say on the subject then you just walked
off. If I am wrong in the scriptures that I used I am willing to
listen to you, just show me from the word of God."
Jerry mumbles, "Joe, you didn't listen to me before and you will not
listen to truth now. All you want to do is shove your religion
down our throats." Joe comes back into the conversation and
says, "Jerry, I really believe deep down that you know that is
not true. I have never sought to shove anything down your throat
but many times you would catch me eating a hamburger or chicken
sandwich and you would jump on my case about it. Jesus died to
save mankind not animals." The work bell goes off. Jerry is
thinking, "Just in time!" Jerry says, "Well, we need to get to
work, we will take this up later Joe and I will show you clearly
that eating animals is against God's will for us." Jerry gets up
to go to his post. Joe looks over at Tom and he just shrugs his
shoulders. Joe smiles and gets up to go to his post. Tom says,
"I would like to hear more later on what you were saying Joe!"
Joe looks around surprised and says, "Sure Tom, anytime!"
Tom's mind goes back to Clyde, "He is an honest man, he was always
on time, he hardly ever complained, and he did his work superbly. He
was one of my best workers and he gets killed in New York telling
some punk rockers about Jesus. What kind of God do they have
that would even allow such atrocities?" Tom stops thinking about
it for the moment, he would be very interested to hear Joe defend
a God like that. Tom gets up and goes back into his office. He
just fired another one of his employees who was caught trying to
take some money out of the cash drawer. Tom caught him red
handed and then he tried to deny it. Tom told him to be thankful
that he is just firing him and not bringing the cops in on it.
Tom is thinking to himself, "What is wrong with people? Why do
they do some of the junk that they do? As far as that goes, why
do I do some of the junk that I do? Why did I have that one
night stand with that secretary a few years ago and my wife finds
out and she leaves me? Why did I even do it? Was it really
worth it?" Tom shakes his head, "I gotta get my mind off all
these things and think about this business that I have put ten
years of my life into and thousands upon thousands of dollars.
Things just don't seem to make sense, if I really came from a
monkey, what has sense to do with it or love, hate, desire,
confusion, right, wrong? Enough!", that comes out of his mouth
with a burst of noise that scared him. His secretary comes
running into the office, "Did you call me?" Tom shakes his
head, "No, Lynn. I was just thinking out loud. Do you know what
happened to Judy. Why didn't she come to work today?" Lynn
says, "Well, it is something to do with her live-in partner who
went off with some girl at a bar and Judy is down, to say the
least." Tom says, "Okay, thanks Lynn. If I need you, I will
page you!" She says, "Okay" and turns to exit the office.
Tom is alone with his thoughts once again and that is the
last thing that he wants right now. He looks down at all the
bills, the paperwork in front of him and he wonders, "What's the
use?"
