Say What?

Step 3 of “Carefully Evaluate Explanations” challenges us not to accept foolish thinking offered as explanations for life’s difficulties as Job’s friends offered him (Job 8:4-8). Pick out the foolish statements in the examples that follow. Discuss the basis of the belief behind the statement.

Kenny left the airport (where he worked) around noon for a lunch meeting. Driving in a hurry around a sharp turn he ran his Yukon off the road and flipped it. He was a good driver. He never even had a ticket, but he was speeding to make that meeting. I can only guess that God needed him more than his wife Judy and the kids, but it's been a very painful time for them. I pray Kenny’s death will help others realize they need to slow down. God bless everyone.

Patient says life is good if you get help, listen to doc: [Wray] works at a Cass Corridor dog day-care business and volunteers at Wags, a group that helps people with HIV who have pets. He said of his future living with AIDS: "I don't think it's going to take me right away. I believe only the good die young. ... I'm gonna be here forever."

There is another angel in heaven today watching over you and he's okay. Know that Sonny will always be with you. I will pray for comfort, joy and happiness to return in your life in the days ahead. Sonny was a wonderful testimony to how people should live. Love in Christ.

So Close to Tragedy: ONLY unarguable blind luck stopped rugby league plunging into desperate grieving today. Another centimetre or so and six players would be in wheelchairs, their careers and more importantly their lives, as broken as their necks. What happened last weekend was carnage. It was a despicable disregard by players for the welfare of their colleagues and stunningly ignored the truism: "What goes around comes around."