Faith and Prayer

This is a true story of something that happened just a few years ago at USC. There was a professor of philosophy there who was a deeply committed atheist. His primary goal for one required class was to spend the entire semester to prove that God couldn't exist. His students were always afraid to argue with because of his impeccable logic. Sure some had argued in class at times, but no one had ever really gone against him because of his reputation. At the end of every semester on the last day he would say to his class of 300 students "If there is anyone here who still believes in Jesus, stand up!"
In twenty years no one had ever stood up. They knew what he was going to do next. He would say, "Because anyone who believes in God is a fool. If God existed He would stop this piece of chalk from hitting the ground and breaking. Such a simple task to prove that He is God and yet He can't do it." And every year he would drop the chalk onto the tile floor and it would shatter into a hundred pieces. All the students would do nothing but stop and stare. Most of the students thought God couldn't exist. Certainly a number of Christians had slipped through, but for twenty years they had been too afraid to stand up.

Well a few years ago there was a freshman who happened to enroll. He was a christian and had heard the stories about his professor. He was required to take the class for his major and he was afraid. But for three months he prayed every morning that he would have the courage to stand up no matter what the professor said or what the class thought. Nothing they said could ever shatter his faith...he hoped.

Finally the day came. The professor said "If there is anyone here who still believes in God, stand up!" The professor and the class of 300 people looked at him shocked as he stood up at the back of the classroom.

The professor shouted, "You FOOL!!! If God existed, He would keep this piece of chalk from breaking when it hit the ground!" He proceeded to drop the chalk but as he did, it slipped out of his fingers, off his shirt cuff, onto the pleat of his pants, down his leg and off his shoe. As it hit the ground, it simply rolled away unbroken. The professor's jaw dropped as he stared at the chalk. He looked up at the young man and then ran out of the lecture hall. The young man, who had stood proceeded to walk to the front of the room and shared his faith in Jesus for the next half hour. 300 students stayed and listened as he told of God's love for them and of His power through Jesus.










Isn't it funny how simple it is for people to thrash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.


Isn't it funny how we believe what the newspapers say but question what the bible says.


Isn't it funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to believe, think, say or do anything the bible says?


Isn't it funny how someone can say "I'll believe in God but still follow satan(who by the way also "believes" in God)


Isnt it funny how I can be more worried about what the other people think of me than what God thinks of me?