Subject: IT TAKES GUTS TO SAY JESUS
Thought this was a great story! Please pass it on for some encouragement to
your Christian and non-Christian friends.
"All for the glory of God."
It takes guts to Say "Jesus". This is a true story of something that
happened just a few years ago at USC. 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 is 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 could 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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