ODDITY
OR EXTRAORDINARY
Written by : Rudell Capron
H
ave you ever thought about
the fact that there are so
many strange things in the
world? Things that seeming-
ly don’t make sense, yet we
accept them as truth without
having much explanation.
For example, if geese is the
plural of goose, then why
isn’t meese the plural of moose? Or, if vegetable oil is made
from vegetables, and corn oil is made from corn, then what
is baby oil made from? I’m pretty sure that you don’t have
the answers for these questions either, and though certainly
odd, these examples are hardly mind boggling.
But, what about the things of this life that we cannot actu-
ally see or touch, but are also true? Like the fact that I will
one day earn a Master’s degree, and be a wife, a mother,
or that my dog Oscar of nine years disappeared without a
trace, but I still expect to one day come home and find him
here even after five years?
What about the fact that we serve a God that we can’t see,
believe in His Son who was born of a virgin, lived a sinless
life, died for our past, present and future sins more than
2000 years before we even existed, then was miraculously
resurrected 3 days later? How about the Holy Spirit, the
comforter that speaks, feels, grieves, and does all of this
while living within us?
Do you find any of this to be strange, or is it even stranger
that I KNOW them to be the truth and don’t find this to be
strange in the least? The fact is, I CHOOSE to believe these
things by faith. No matter how crazy we may appear for be-
lieving on the Father, His Son, and the Holy Spirit, we must
be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the faith, that
we can know that the present circumstances cannot even be
compared to the future glory.
Besides, I’d prefer to believe that Oscar will return home
rather than believe that baby oil is made from babies...
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