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A lesson in faith
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This is a great story--it should give you hope and courage. This is a
true story of something that happened just a few years ago at USC:
"It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'".
There was a professor of philosophy there who was a deeply
committed atheist. His primary goal for one required class was to
spend the entire semester attempting to prove that God couldn't exist.
His students were always afraid to argue with him because of his
impeccable logic.
For twenty years, he had taught this class and no one had ever had
the courage to go against him. Sure, some had argued in class at
times, but no one had ever 'really gone against him' (you'll see what
I mean later). Nobody would go against him because he had a
reputation. At the end of every semester, on the last day, he would
say to his class of 300 students, "If there's anyone here who still
believes in Jesus, stand up!" In twenty years, no one had ever stood
up. They knew what he was going to do next.
He would say, "because anyone who does believe in God is a fool. If
God existed, he would stop this piece of chalk from hitting the ground
and breaking. Such a simple task to prove that he is God, and yet he
can't do it." And every year, he would drop the chalk onto the tile
floor of the classroom and it would shatter into a hundred pieces. All
of the students could do nothing but stop and stare. Most of the
students were convinced that God couldn't exist. Certainly, a number
of Christians had slipped through, but for 20 years, they had been too
afraid to stand up.
Well, a few years ago, there was a freshman who happened to get
enrolled in the class. He was a Christian, and had heard the stories
about this professor. He had to take the class because it was one of
the required classes for his major. and he was afraid. But for 3
months that semester, he prayed every morning that he would have the
courage to stand up no matter what the professor said or what the
class thought. Nothing they said or did could ever shatter his faith,
he hoped.
Finally the day came. The professor said, "If there is anyone here
who still believes in God, stand up!" The professor and the class of
300 people looked at him, shocked, as he stood up at the back of the
classroom. The professor shouted, "You FOOL!! If God existed, he could
keep this piece of chalk from breaking when it hit the ground!" He
proceeded to drop the chalk, but as he did, it slipped out of his
fingers, off his shirt cuff, onto the pleats of his pants, down his
leg, and off his shoe. As it hit the ground, it simply rolled away,
unbroken. The professor's jaw dropped as he stared at the chalk.
He looked up at the young man and then ran out of the lecture hall.
The young man who had stood up proceeded to walk to the front of
the room and share his faith in Jesus for the next half hour. 300
students stayed and listened as he told of God's love for them and of
his power through Jesus.
"Yet to all who received HIM, to those who believed in HIS name, HE
gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural
descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of GOD."
"But HE knows the way that I take. When HE has tested me, I will come
forth as gold."
- Job 23:10
You have one of 2 choices...
1) delete this and never look at it again
2) pass this along to your Christian and non-Christians friends and
let them have encouragement we all need every day.
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