a very interesting conversation.....

Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good ?

Student : Sure.

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent.)

Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Is satan good ?

Student : No.

Professor: Where does satan come from ?

Student : From … GOD …

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?

Student :Yes

Professor: So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them ?

(Student had no answer.)

Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?

Student : No, sir.

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?

Student : No , sir.

Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smell your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Professor: Yes.

Student : No, sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theatre became very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.

Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class broke out into laughter. )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

P.S.

I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends /colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?
Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.
By the way, that student was EINSTEIN ;-)

Ponder a Thought

W.W.J.D.

So if you were around in the early and mid 90s, you know that WWJD bracelets were a big fad, resting on the wrists of many, even if they didn't know who Jesus was. I am guilty of it, but hey, I was like 5 or 6 when I had a bracelet. Anyway, I started thinking about this a while back and I wanted to blog about it to share with you guys. Aren’t you so lucky? J

Anyway, it has been a struggle at times to get through work with a smile on my face. Sometimes its customers, sometimes its my boss. It was to the point I woulf slack off at work and determine in my mind that I was going to do my job half way, not putting any effort into doing it right or even caring if it was done wrong. Helping customers, looking for products, stockling the products, whatever I was suppose to do at the time, I wasn’t going to be my best at it. And every day, I use to catch myself staring at the clock, waiting for it to hit the time I was off.

Until one day, something (or should I say the Holy Spirit) put in my mind “What Would Jesus Do?” “Would Jesus do His job half heartedly? DID Jesus do His job half heartedly?” “Is this how you would act if Jesus was your boss?” what if Jesus was one of those secret shoppers and I treated Him like He didn't matter? When I got struck with this thought, I said “wowwwwwww.”

Now, I'm not perfect. Who is? But I try to remember that day that I heard the Lord voice say that about my attitude at work. I really ask myself “what would Jesus do? How would HE act at work? How DID He act when He was out ministering and teaching and living life?” we are to be Christ-like, and that includes at work. J

Until next time, America (…and world)

30 Days of Kia ♥

Day 8

What’s important to me

Now, when I was putting this thing together, I initially was thinking about the type of guy I need in my life aka future booski aka my future boyfriend that (Lord willing) will be future husband. But as I went on, the type of people I need in my life period need to possess (because these are the qualities I try to possess) (and like Katt Williams said you gotta be around people that’s doing better and better and better. You gotta stop hanging around people who are doing that same stuff) (and of course that’s the G rated version of what he said lol).

Now, with the future man analogy, I used a guy who was average looking, but possessed everything I will list in a minute and a guy that I thought was very attractive but I knew his lifestyle was off (in this case, it was Fabolous). Now the top factors here are obviously looks and personality. Personality includes everything about a person, whether people realize it or not, beliefs being the top thing controlling the whole operation: what a person believes (religion, opinions about life, etc) shape their words, actions, style, dress, everything.
So then I said, what if I was on Bachelorette. If it was down to the average, wouldn’t be a double take, probably wouldn’t give him a second thought AND the dude I thought was very sexy. Both dudes were pretty much the same in musical ability, money, all that stuff, except lifestyle and looks. I thought, who would I honestly pick? What dude would get that rose or whatever they do on that show (I don’t watch Bachelorette, so I don’t know what they do lol). I honestly, I would pick the no double take dude. Now, if you would have caught me about 5, 6 years ago, maybe even three or two years ago, I def would have picked the Fabolous dude. “Why?” you say. “I thought you loved Jesus soooo much?! How could you pick a dude that’s so not like you, Kia? That’s something I would expect somebody else to do, but not goodie two shoes Kia.”
First off, nobody’s perfect. AND I was younger in age back then and a babe in the faith. Still trying to figure stuff out, still trying to understand what was important in the long run and what was important to me. I was still trying to figure out what I liked in a guy anyway. So, that’s some transparency for you. (Actually, if you would have caught me last month, the chance would still be there for me to pick the dude I knew was not the right puzzle piece for me. I had to pray on that one. Ya girl would have bent a little for this dude. Not a good look, I know I know).
Anyway, so I started to think, why would I pick a no double take dude over Fabolous dude? And I realized it’s because of who I am and who I've become.
So skip skip skip, the things I started speaking out of my mouth were scriptural. A few years ago, half of what I spoke of my mouth would have been scriptural, and that would have been on a good day. But the stuff I said is as follows
• If he on his Romans 12:1-2 (his mind and body)
• His Ephesians 4:29 (his speech)
• On his Philippians 2:5 (his mind)
• Philippians 13:4-7 (love)
Few in number, but powerful in meaning. If a dude is doing these things, that’s a beautiful thing. Now if he just so happens to be beautiful with some swag, ay, I'm not gon complain. But there’s just something that is so beautiful about a man’s mind, something that will forever exhibit his true beauty better than any Armani suit and cufflinks, better than any amount of money he could ever spend on a wardrobe, a car, a haircut, a tan.


How does this translate into friends? A made family? Your crew? Simple. You want like minded people around you. Somebody that thinks like you. Unless that "opposites attract" thing is coming into play (which that opposite components have to end somewhere), it’s not really gonna work, in any relationship. So yeah. Embrace it, fear it, love it, share it, comment, blog, reply, all of that!!

My reading notes from Galatians 1-3....Dont Waste Your Life

CHAPTER 1

If anyone tells you something that is contrary to the gospel of Christ, they will be cursed.(6-9)

If you try to please ppl, you are not pleasing Christ (peer pressure, etc.) (10)

After all the things Paul (who was once Saul) did to the church, after he converted to follow Christ, he went back and the people glorified God (24)

CHAPTER 2

If your a Christian but you live like the world, how you gon tell somebody to be(act like) a Christian? (Practice what you preach) (is there a clear difference between you and your unsaved friends/ peers?) (14)

Works/deeds get you nowhere, only faith in Jesus(15-16)

I died with Christ, but i am alive, but its not me who lives, but Christ that is in me. (20)

If being good came from the law, then Christ's death was for nothing (21)

CHAPTER 3

You recieve faith by hearing of faith and ministering by the Holy Ghost, not by your works (2-5)

No one is justified by works, but by faith. The just shall live by faith(hab.2:4) (11)

The law is the tutor that leads us to Christ/ by faith justified, He gives us life (Justified, Sho Baraka) (24)

But after we recieve faith, we no longer are under a tutor (law)(25)