Some deep thoughts.

Jun 19, 2005 10:10

I drugged myself with tylenol pm to sleep last night.
Which lasted another hour after I woke up.
Anyways... some deep thoughts to leave ya with...

A missionary was evangelizing a native tribe in a jungle. Where he came from, he had lots and lots of pineapples. So he brought pineapple saplings from his homeland and hired natives to plant the sapling. After 3 long years, the pineapple trees started to grow fruits. He was ecstatic! He was so happy that he can have pineapples as much as he wish. Until it grew, he would walk around the farm, waiting it to grow. Then when the pineapples were finally edible, they would disappear. Eventually he learned the natives were taking them.

The law of the jungle was planter is the keeper. Though the missionary tried to explain that the trees are his, hence natives should not take them. No matter what he did, they took them anyways. He tried to pay them, persuade them, he even at one point closed his hospital.

For 8 long years, it continued like so. At one fateful day, he gave up his rights for the pineapple farm. He announced the right now is with God. Surprisingly, the natives stopped taking the pineapples. Why? Because they would be stealing from God, and they did not wish to do such.

The missionary changed as well. He gave everything to God, and due to his change, he set a living example of Christianity and many natives turned to God.

In the face of truth, when one try to take what is God's, he or she is the one that ends up with loss. When everything is to God, he provides. Still, we keeps holding on to whatever we do not wish to give up.

What is your pineapple...?
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