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Friday, June 9, 2023
At the end of May I took our car into the dealer for a routine service. They discovered that I also needed a brake job, so while I was waiting for that to be done, I went across the street and ate lunch at a friendly little Chinese buffet restaurant. When I left, I was startled to see that someone had left their fortune cookie on the outside windowsill.
I was a bit puzzled by this. You and I both know that the “fortunes” inside these cookies are fake, written to be vague enough so they could sprout hope in a variety of hearts, and only rarely contain predictions of doom. And they sometimes miss the mark by a mile, as was the case with a cookie I received in a Michigan restaurant a few months after Shelley and I had married. Breaking it open, I discovered this prophecy: “Start preparing your hope chest!” My bride of 45 years still makes a nettled scowl when she thinks of it.
But back to the above unread fortune. As I say, I don’t believe in their message, and open them only to be amused. And I’ve always liked the cookies’ flavor. So I couldn’t understand why someone would deliberately pass up this cost-free tasty treat after discarding the paper slip.
Is there true prophecy? Sure. Will it tell me who’ll be the next president of the United States, or whether my favorite Hollywood couple will divorce? Nope. True prophecy comes from God, and deals only with issues He considers cosmically important.
If you’d like a Bible tutorial on prophets and the future, click the two links just below:
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/prophets
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/future