A Force of One

David Hill (13 Feb 2004) "A Force of One"

Bear ye one another's Burdens and thus fullfill the
Law of Messiah...

Having a little bit of time on my hands, and needing a
break from my various studies, I decided I would send
in this list of questions to see if there was any
bored Theologians out there that might have some ideas
or comments...

WHY DID GOD GIVE:

A Speech Impediment to Moses - Ex 4:10
A Hernia to Jacob - Gen 32:32
Bad Eye site to Isaac - Gen 27:1
A Pair of Contact Lenses to Paul - Acts 9:18
Asperger Syndrome to David - 2 Sam 6:21
Five Smooth Stones to David - 1 Sam 17:40
Bad Circulation to David - 1 Kings 1:1
Weak Ankles to Solomon - Pr 25:19
An Uncomplicated Concussion to a Male Child - 2 K 4:19
A Bad Back to Mephibosheth - 2 Sam 9:3
Short Stature to Zacchaeus - Luke 19:3

NOTES

1) The chances are great that the five smooth stones
that were given to David were also perfectly round.
Contrary to some of the wildest explanations of this,
he picked that many stones because stones, regardless
of how smooth they are, don't usually fly perfectly
straight, so he picked up five of them out of habit,
in case several of them missed - it is that simple.
The fact that he nailed his target on the first shot
is indicative that they were assuredly perfectly
round. Did you know that the four wheel drive
assembly of a Chevy Blazer, on the front wheel drive
unit itself, has exactly five bearings about the size
of a golf ball which is the perfect size for a
slingshot? The reason that I know this is because the
Chevy Blazer that Abba gave me, which I drove out here
to Denver, had a bad front wheel drive unit that the
previous owner did not take care of, and the housing
of the bearings snapped off and the whole unit started
shaking tremendously as I was driving (even though the
four wheel drive was not engaged), so I pulled over
and took the wheel off, and found out what the
situation was and pulled the drive shaft out of the
unit, and down dropped these five bearings. They are
actually the only thing that I have left from that
Blazer. They're heavy too. I certainly wouldn't want
to have one IMPLANTED into my forehead. The fact that
the stone sank into his forehead implies that it was
heavier then a normal slingshot stone.

2) Now, every naturally occurring object in the world
was, more or less, familiar to everyone back then,
and, unless we believe that there are man made objects
in heaven, then this is the only thing that makes
sense of these fish scale objects that just happened
to be the exact same size and shape as an eye. The
reason he was blinded was because they were not made
for his eyes. I remember the first time I went to be
fitted for contacts (in Belgium in the Air Force) and
the lady put one of those lenses in my eye, I just
about jumped out of my skin it hurt so much and I
couldn't see a thing and I was just about screaming at
her to take it out (this is not an exaggeration
either). Also, in order for the contact lenses to
look like fish scales, they would have been of the gas
permeable variety, as opposed to the soft kind which
basically look like pieces of plastic bags, or the
hard variety which are basically like solid glass.
The gas permeable are semi soft and semi hard and they
look pretty much like fish scales especially when we
realize that they are usually tinted light blue (at
least mine always are) unlike the others which, as far
as I know, are clear, not dyed.

3) As far as the stature of Zacchaeus, note our Lord's
interesting statement in Matt 6:23 (I believe he was
referring to one "span" of a persons hand, which is
the strict definition of cubit, if I am not mistaken.
Why would he have even made this statement? Not that
it matters much, but the image on the shroud of Turin
is of a man that is about six foot one or two (I'm
only five foot seven and three eighths).

4) If the male child had of had a heat stroke, as
scholars believe, he would not have been complaining
about his head. In other words, his head wouldn't
have hurt, he would have just passed out. I myself
can be slightly accident prone and actually gave
myself a concussion at work one day. When I got home
that night, I didn't realize the seriousness of the
situation and I made the mistake of touching the spot
that I had hit on a water pipe (which knocked me right
down to the ground). As soon as I touched that very
soft spot, it actually gave in some and I just about
passed out and was experiencing the pain associated
with a concussion as well as wanting to vomit. I
tried everything to ease the pain and nausea, but
wasn't succeeding and then I cried out to God, "Abba,
I need you" (the lady next door actually heard this)
and immediately, without thinking, I elevated my feet
and head and that took care of the problem. I believe
that male child experienced a very similar event to
this. Perhaps he too was accident prone.

All things are possible to The One that believes...