Me: Why did your friend run off Prodigal?
Prodigal: We all got pieces of stupid in us. His are just bigger than most.
Me: Maybe we should go and try to help him.
Prodigal: I think that is a good idea.
This is from George Everett Ross
I have served in the ministry thirty years, almost thirty-one. I have come to understand that there are two kinds of faith. One says if and the other says though. One says: “If everything goes well, if my life is prosperous, if I’m happy, if no one I love dies, if I’m successful, then I will believe in God and say my prayers and go to the church and give what I can afford.” The other says though: though the cause of evil prosper, though I sweat in Gethsemane, though I must drink my cup at Calvary–nevertheless, precisely then, I will trust the Lord who made me. So Job cries: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust Him.”
We cannot choose another’s faith all we can do is pray for them and then choose to live our faith and continue to Praise God that though he slay me, yet will I trust Him.
1 Corinthians 15:11
Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
