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30/07/2015

TUHAN HANYA SEJAUH DOA
RENCANA TUHAN SELALU INDAH PADA WAKTUNYA.
Tidak ada kebetulan bagi orang PERCAYA.
(Sebuah kisah nyata)

Pada suatu waktu,
Dr. Mark, seorang spesialis kanker yang terkemuka, sedang dalam perjalanan menuju sebuah konferensi penting di sebuah kota lain utk menerima penghargaan di bidang riset medis.

Dia sangat bersemangat utk menghadiri konferensi itu dan ingin secepatnya tiba di sana. Ia telah bekerja keras dan lama utk risetnya itu dan merasa layak utk menerima penghargaan tsb.
Akan tetapi, 2 jam setelah pesawatnya tinggal landas, pesawat itu harus mendarat darurat di bandara terdekat akibat kerusakan teknis.
Krn kuatir akan terlambat tiba di konferensi tsb Dr. Mark segera pergi ke bagian resepsion dan mendapati bhw penerbangan berikutnya baru ada 10 jam kemudian.

Resepsionis menyarankan agar ia menyewa mobil dan berkendara ke kota tempat konferensi itu yang hanya akan memakan wkt 4 jam berkendara.

Karena tidak ada pilihan lain, ia setuju utk berkendara meskipun ia tidak s**a mengemudi jarak jauh.

Dr. Mark menyewa sebuah mobil dan memulai perjalanannya.

Akan tetapi, segera setelah ia berangkat, tiba2 cuaca menjadi buruk dan sebuah badai besar terjadi.
Hujan yang terus turun menyulitkannya untuk melihat dan akhirnya ia melewati belokan yang seharusnya ia ambil.

Setelah 2 jam berkendara, ia yakin bahwa ia telah tersesat.
Mengemudi dalam hujan yg lebat di jalan yg terpencil, merasa lapar dan letih, dg sangat gelisah ia mulai mencari tanda2 adanya kehidupan (penduduk setempat).

Setelah beberapa waktu, ia menjumpai sebuah rumah tua kecil.
Dg putus asa, ia keluar dr mobil dan mengetuk pintu.
Seorang wanita cantik membuka pintu.
Dr. Mark menjelaskan masalahnya dan meminta tolong kpd wanita tsb apakah ia bisa meminjam teleponnya.
Tetapi wanita itu memberitahukannya bhw ia tidak memiliki telepon atau pun peralatan elektronik lainnya, namun wanita itu mengajak dokter itu utk masuk ke rumahnya dan menunggu hingga cuaca membaik.
Kelaparan, basah dan kelelahan, sang dokter menerima tawaran baiknya dan masuk ke dlm rumah. Wanita itu memberinya teh panas dan sesuatu utk dimakan.
Wanita itu mengajaknya utk berdoa bersama.
Namun Dr. Mark tersenyum dan berkata bhw ia hanya percaya akan kerja keras dan mempersilakan wanita itu utk melanjutkan doanya.

Sambil duduk menikmati tehnya, sang dokter memperhatikan wanita itu berdoa di keredupan cahaya lilin, ketika ia berdoa di samping sesuatu yg tampak seperti tempat tidur bayi yg kecil.

Setiap saat wanita itu selesai berdoa ia segera melanjutkannya dg doa lainnya.
Merasa bahwa wanita itu sedang membutuhkan pertolongan, sang dokter mengambil kesempatan utk berbicara segera setelah wanita itu selesai berdoa.

Sang dokter bertanya kepada wanita itu apakah sebenarnya yang ia inginkan dr Tuhan dan apakah Tuhan akan mendengar doa2nya.

Ia lanjut bertanya tentang seorang anak di tempat tidur bayi tsb yg sepertinya sedang ia doakan.

Wanita itu tersenyum getir dan berkata bhw anak itu adalah anaknya yg sedang menderita suatu jenis penyakit kanker yg jarang dan hanya ada 1 dokter, namanya dr Mark yg dapat menyembuhkannya - namun wanita itu tidak mampu utk membayar Dr. Mark,
Dan lagi Dr. Mark tinggal di kota lain yg jauh.
Wanita itu berkata bhw sejauh ini memang Tuhan belum menjawab doanya tetapi suatu hari Tuhan akan menciptakan jalan keluar dan ia menambahkan bahwa ia tidak akan membiarkan kekuatirannya mengalahkan imannya.

Kagum dan tak dapat berkata apa2, Dr. Mark berlinangan air mata.
Ia berbisik,
Tuhan Maha Besar dan mengingat kembali rangkaian peristiwa yg ia alami.....ada kerusakan teknis di pesawat, badai yg melanda, ia tersesat di jalan, dan semuanya ini terjadi karena Tuhan tidak hanya menjawab doa wanita tsb tetapi juga memberinya sebuah kesempatan utk keluar dari dunia yg materialistis dan memberikan sebagian waktunya utk orang2 miskin yang putus asa yg tidak memiliki apapun selain doa-doa yg kaya....

Siap sedialah selalu utk melakukan apa yg Allah telah persiapkan untuk Anda lakukan.

Tidak ada yg kebetulan di dalam hidup ini bagi orang percaya.
Allah mampu membuka jalan2 yg mustahil dalam perhitungan manusia, bagi setiap orang yg berharap dan berserah penuh kepadaNya.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. (Albert Einstein)

Kebetulan adlh cara Tuhan utk tetap tdk dikenal.
Semoga TUHAN selalu memberkati kita semua.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

30/07/2015

Lets put your logic to the test grin emoticon

Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good ?

Student : Sure.

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent.)

Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Is satan good ?

Student : No.

Professor: Where does satan come from ?

Student : From … GOD …

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?

Student : Yes.

Professor: So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them ?

(Student had no answer.)

Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?

Student : No, sir.

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?

Student : No , sir.

Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Professor: Yes.

Student : No, sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.

Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class broke out into laughter. )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

P.S.

I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?

Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.

By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.

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