I once worked with a man of the Islamic belief, all though he was an American born and bred. He chose to go the way of the Islamic faith. One day, as I was walking out from my workplace (keep in mind that I was ALOT younger), he was sitting in his car. He was looking at me and I said, "What are you looking at?" And get this! He said, "The way the sun shines in your hair. In my belief, in heaven (that's the way he put it), a man will have a lovely creature to keep them company. I suppose the creature will be something like you." I knew nothing about the Islamic religion. So, I had no idea that, in reality, they believe there will be alot more than one lovely creature. Immediately after he said this to me, my first thought was, "Well, isn't that convenient?" At this time, this man knew more of the Bible than I did. I had just been walking with the LORD for a couple of years, and although I had read the Bible, I didn't know it like I do now. We had many conversations, and he glorified himself, it seemed to me. So, one day I asked him why he tooted his own horn. That we were supposed to give glory to God alone. He didn't like that too much. I asked him if his wife walked behind him and he said, "Are you kidding?" My thoughts on this were, "Hypocrite. If you truly believe what you say, you'd make your wife walk behind you." And then there was the time (and this was when he decided I wasn't the creature for him in heaven), I said to him, "You know the Bible better than I do. You know JESUS is the LORD. Give HIM glory." To which he replied, with his feathers ruffled, "That is not my faith." See, that's what I don't understand. Why do other religions refer to what they believe as their "faith", or at least the Islamic people do. I don't get that. Faith is the evidence of things not seen. Faith is what GOD gives you to believe in HIS SON. Everything else is just a belief. What blows my mind, what I love about my LORD, is that HE knew very well that in mostly every society since the beginning of time, women were lower than second class citizens. But it was a woman, who when the sun rose on that Resurrection morning, was the first witness to the SON'S Resurrection. Let's face the facts, she was the first preacher after the Resurrection. That's why I love the LORD. Because HE loves me no matter who I am or what I've done. Now, that's a GOD I can believe in. Amen?
