ZEROES AND HEROES
A young lady was proudly narrating to the Vicar of her church, the
qualities of her prospective bridegroom. He took a piece of paper and a pen and
got ready to evaluate the person. As she excitedly enumerated each quality, he
put a 'zero' mark on the paper, one after the other. She announced the
attributes of the groom in alphabetical order: "He is affluent, beautiful, charming, dignified, educated and fashionable." She found that the
Vicar has marked a zero as she mentioned each quality and was obviously not
impressed by his action. Then she added, "He is also God-fearing." Now the Vicar quickly marked a 'one' to the left of the six zeroes. The
figure now read as: 1000000. He said
gladly, "Now there is a meaning to all the qualities you listed. Without
God, we are zeroes. With Him, we are
heroes."
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"
{Psalms 111:10}.
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge"
{Proverbs 1:7}.
"Behold, the fear of the Lord is wisdom; and avoiding evil is
understanding" {Job 28: 28}.
"For what this world considers to be wisdom is nonsense in
God's sight"
{1 Corinthians 3: 19}.
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© By: Dr. Babu Philip,
Professor, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Fine Arts Avenue,
Kochi-682016, Kerala, India, Prof. Mrs. Rajamma Babu, Former
Professor, St. Dominic's College, Kanjirappally and Leo. S. John, Maniparambil, Ooriyakunnath, Kunnumbhagom, Kanjirappally,
Kottayam-686507, Kerala, India.
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