An appropriate request from Netanyahu
Good suggestion....
Dear President Obama:
I am writing today with a somewhat unusual request. I am asking that you return America to its August 20, 1959 borders so that Hawaii is no longer a state and you are no longer a citizen.
Thank you,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Are You Listening?
May 28, 2011
He was frustrated. He was angry. He was tired of being blamed for everything that went wrong. Year after year, he had gotten them through one disaster after another. He was continually interceding on their behalf to keep them out of trouble. But all he got for his efforts was more grief. Finally, in exasperation, he said, “Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?” (Num. 20:10).
That suggestion might sound preposterous, but it wasn’t. Forty years earlier, the previous generation had the same complaint: no water. God told Moses to strike a rock with his staff (Ex. 17:6). When he obeyed, water gushed out—plenty of water. When the grumbling started again so many years later, Moses did the thing that worked before. But this time it was the wrong thing to do. What Moses told the Israelites to do—to listen—he himself had not done. God had told him to speak to the rock this time, not strike it.
Sometimes in exhaustion or exasperation, we don’t pay close attention to God. We assume He will always work the same way. But He doesn’t. Sometimes He tells us to act; sometimes He tells us to speak; sometimes He tells us to wait. That is why we must always be careful to listen before we take action.
Lord, help us to obey Your Word,
To heed Your still small voice;
And may we not be swayed by men,
But make Your will our choice. —D. De Haan
Listen—then obey.
Read: Numbers 20:1-13
Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water. —
Numbers 20:8“Homework Excuses”
Excuses to give your teacher when you don’t do your homework.
- I didn’t do my history homework because I don’t believe in dwelling on the past.
- I didn’t want the other kids in the class to look bad.
- A sudden gust of wind blew my homework out of my hand and I never saw it again.
- Another pupil fell in a lake and I jumped in to rescue him. Unfortunately, my homework drowned.
- Our furnace broke and we had to burn my homework to keep ourselves from freezing.
- I’m not at liberty to say why.
- I wanted to frame the detention letter you’re about to give me.
- It was destroyed in a freak accident involving a hippo, a toaster, and a bag of frozen peas. You don’t want to know the details.
- I have a solar-powered calculator, and it was cloudy.
- I made a paper plane out of it and it got hijacked.
- My mom used it as a dryer sheet.
- My agent won’t allow me to publish my homework until the movie deal is finalized.
- It’s against my religion to do any homework.
- I was abducted by green-skinned, three-eyed, pig-snouted space aliens, and they incinerated my homework with their death rays.
- I felt it wasn’t challenging enough.
- My parents were sick and unable to do my homework last night. Don’t worry, they have been suitably punished.
- We had homework?!
- I see your lips moving, but all I am hearing is “blah, blah, blah.”
- I didn’t want to add to your already heavy workload.
- I spent the night at a rally supporting higher pay for our hard-working teachers.
