I was in class this afternoon and we were four people in a team, again going off topic. Maybe we didn’t feel like talking about the challenges in teaching and evaluating kids from different levels in the same classroom, or maybe we had said all we could think of… But the topic of expressions came up. More precisely, expressions such as “holy cow!” and “holy smoke!” (and others). People were asking why such expressions existed, because the two words just were not meant to be together. “What’s holy?” said a too-talkative girl who hadn’t listen to our conversation.

“God is Holy.” Said I.

This started another conversation that had to be ended 10 seconds later because the teacher stopped the discussion period. A fellow student reminded our group I was religious, and that was why I said such things. He then asked me what was the meaning of life. But that’s when the teacher stopped us.

The class was over after a littlebit. I invited the guy to join us for supper, he too had brought his baglunch. I said, “If you want to learn about the meaning of life you better hurry, ’cause we’re off to the cafeteria!” So he came along. We ate and talked about the Bible, how he believed in it, but couldn’t believe the creation part, in God. Did not make sense to him. But he said he loved what he saw in Jesus, His words, attitude, miracles, Jesus the man. I told him that this Jesus claimed to be God. The guy actually believes Jesus rose from the dead. So anyways, slowly I made the point that if someone claims to be God (even if you don’t believe in God), says he’ll die and come back to life… and actually accomplishes all this, well, the guy must be God, he’s no liar or crazy guy. We talked about being religious and what Jesus said about those who were considered the most religious in His days, that God wanted us to realize our great need, our total inability to obey Him perfectly. I was able to tell him the Good News. He agreed with it all. But to me, he seemed blind, not understanding. His conclusion: you make your own religion, you keep what you want to keep from the Bible or whatever, and that’s fine. My conclusion: well, opinions are worthless until  they are founded upon something solid and I founded mine on the written Word of God.

You can pray for him.