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Saturday, September 30, 2006, 1:04 AM
The Story of the Cheese and Cracker Christian
Found this in the Campus Crusade DG book, "Cru.nAction".The Story of the Cheese and Cracker Christian
A man booked passage on a ship that was crossing the Atlantic. He brought with him enough money to buy a ticket, a block of cheese and some crackers for the long voyage. The first few days at sea the cheese and crackers tasted good, but eventually they became stale. Each day as he watched the porters carry large steak, lobster, chickens and other delicious food to the ship's guests, he became so hungry that he grabbed one of the porters. "I'll do anything to get one of those steaks," he said. "I'll wash dishes, clean rooms, even mop the deck." The porter replied, "You bought a ticket, didn't you? The meals come with the ticket."
Too many people today are, ignorantly, cheese and cracker Christians, missing out on all of God's steak dinners.
It is tragically true that the average Christian is a practical atheist who professes to believe in God, yet he acts as though God either does not exist or is unwilling to help him. All the resources of God are available to him, yet he lives in self-imposed spiritual poverty on a roller coaster of emotions. He fails to act as a child of the King or live as the carnal man get off and stay off this emotional, roller coaster-type of existence and overcome his inconsistent way of life.