CAN WE DECEIVE GOD?
When our son was a youngster in grade school, his route home from school each day took him by an irrigation canal. He had been instructed repeatedly not to play around the canal on his way home. It was not uncommon for youngsters to drown in the open waterways. One afternoon Jimmy came in, later than usual; his pants were wet and muddy, he was carrying his shoes and had obviously been in the forbidden canal. His mother asked the expected question, “Have you been in the canal?” He had obviously prepared himself for this interrogation by answering, “Yes’m, but I didn’t do it on purpose. I just fell in accidently.” Based on the evidence at hand, his mother then asked, “How is it that if you fell in accidently, you didn’t get your shoes and socks wet?” Quick as a wink, he came back, “Well, I just barely had time to get ’em off before I hit the water!”…
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