FOOD FOR THOUGHT 8/5/99.
Subject: Do YOU Get It?
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A preacher and an atheistic barber                                                                        were once walking through the city slums. 

Said the barber to the preacher:   "This is why I cannot believe in a God of love.
                   If God was as kind as you say,  

          He would not permit all poverty, disease and squalor.                               He would not allow these poor bums
                                           to be addicted to dope and other              character-destroying habits.                     

No, I cannot believe in a God who permits these things."

The minister was silent until they met a man who was especially unkempt
and filthy. 

His hair was hanging down his neck and he had a half-inch
of stubble on his face,                         

Said the minister: "You can't be a very good barber                                               or you wouldn't permit a man    like that to continue living in this
neighborhood without a haircut and a shave."

Baffled, the barber answered:

 "Why blame me for that man's condition?
I can't help it that he is like that. 

He has never come into my shop:
"I COULD fix him up and make him look like a gentleman. 

Giving the barber
                                     a penetrating look, the minister said                                  " Then don't blame God for allowing
                              the people to continue in their evil ways                                                  when He is constantly inviting
                                                them to come and be saved.

 The reason these people are slaves to sin and
evil habits is

 that they refuse the ONE who died to save and deliver them."
THE BARBER SAW THE POINT? DO YOU????

Think on this and pass it along to others who need it!!

God bless