I was just as honest as I could be in believeing that car was where I had parked it twenty minutes before. But, did that honesty reverse all the facts and mean the car was still where I thought it was? The facts were facts, in spite of my thinking otherwise.

Do you think the lady at the police station was out of place or unkind in trying to convince me that I was wrong? Should she just agree with me? Would that agreement change the case? Would she really be the kind of friend I would need under such circumstances?

It is easy to answer questions like that when we speak of a car. Suppose my soul had been involved?

When I look back it is easy to see that I supposed without first investigating. There were some facts that I failed to get before I came to the conclusion. Without those facts my reasoning was all wrong. Until I investigated I didn't have the facts and couldn't come to the right conclusion.

Again, suppose I had refused to accept the facts when I learned the real truth. Suppose I had persisted in saying, "my car is under the stoop". Would that mean it was as I said it was? What would people think of me? Wouldn't they think I was ignoring the facts? Wouldn't they conclude that I would become to them an object of pity?

Yes, I know the car can be replaced and life will go on. But, have we stopped to think that many folks in this old world are dealing with spiritual matters in much the way that we have described? There are people, just like that lady at the police station, people of good will who will try to help us. They will try to help us get the facts and to act in a responsible fashion. These folks are not trying to interfere. They are trying to help us. After all, man doesn't have another soul.

The Tongue

Medical doctors measure physical health by how the tongue looks.
The great physician (Jesus) measures spiritual health by how the tongue acts.

Bill

We offer our deepest sympathies to Jasper and Pasley Sims on the passing of their nephew, Jackie Gilbert, and to Lois Bryant and her family in the passing of her brother, Hurley Wilson, during the past week.