How about getting hired for a job that gives you maximum benefits, astronomical wages and unlimited privileges - all without requiring any effort from you! Does that sound too good to be true? But it's true! Just answer these 4 questions correctly and the job is yours!
According to a consulting firm, which I found on the web, about 90% of people fail to answer these questions correctly. But children often get it right. It said on the website that these questions are used to evaluate the ideal of "thinking outside the box" for hiring management, administration, and sales people. They often use these questions as a test to fill the best positions in the job market.
The questions are easy and the answers are well known. Easy enough, even for small children. Now, here is where the Christian should wear his “thinking hat”: How can a person prove that he is a Christian, and what difference should be seen in one's life after being found by the Grace of God? Then test our skills. The first of the four questions on each of the sets are just well-known jokes, but the questions I found in the Bible, which come after the funny jokes, are no laughing matter but a reason for rejoicing in the Lord.
THE TEST
1. How do you put a giraffe in the refrigerator?
The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, place the giraffe and close the door.
Now the real question:
1. How do you put a terrible person like you (Romans 3:23) out of the way of hell and into the loving arms of salvation?
Wrong answers: being a good person? Following all the rules? Giving money to the poor? (Ephesians 2: 9)
The correct answer is: Looking to Jesus and accepting the fact that he died for his sins and that he came back to life from the dead. (John 3:16)
The question wanted to test if you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way. The true question attests to the power of God's salvation, loving you when you were still dead in your sins. (Ephesians 2: 5)
2. How do you put an elephant inside the refrigerator?
Wrong Answer: Open the refrigerator, place the elephant and close the refrigerator.
Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put the elephant and close the door.
2. How can you stop doing wrong and sinful things?
Wrong Answers: Just Stopping? (John 8:34, Romans 7:15)
Correct Answer: Removing your evil deeds through confession to Christ, then fill yourself with the Spirit of the Lord. (Ephesians 4: 28-32). This proves your ability to reflect on the repercussions of your actions.
3. Lion King hosts a party of animals, all animals except one. Which animal will not?
Correct Answer: The Elephant. He's stuck in the fridge.
3. Jesus called you to follow him to a party, how can we be convinced to participate, and make sure we get there (and not stay in the refrigerator like the elephant)? (Luke 14.16-24).
Correct answer: We will be persuaded and even constrained to follow him, and we will be sure in our hearts (John 16: 8-13). The Bible tells me so (Romans 8:30). In addition to testing your memory, make sure that you are always relying on God's power to lead you on your journey.
Ok, even if you have not answered the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your skills in the Test questions:
4. There is a river that you must cross. But it's infested with crocodiles. How do you manage this?
Correct Answer: You just go ahead and swim your way across. All the crocodiles are at the party with all the other the animals at the Lion king’s house! (Oh Boy!)
4. If on your way to follow Jesus there is a river full of crocodiles, and scary things, and dubious and sinful thoughts, and even if you get lost on the way. How can you find your way back?
Correct answer: Jesus promised us that we would go through difficulties, but he also promised us that he would be with us till the end (John 16:33). He also promises us that when we confess our sins, he is faithful in forgiving and purifying us (1 John 1: 9), putting us back on the right path.
God calls us to live in the fellowship of brothers and sisters, which is the gathering of a local church (John 17.23). The instruction that qualifies us for this job opening is the love that the Lord places in our hearts, demonstrated in the fellowship, worship and mutual service of the other officials of the Lord's kingdom (Galatians 5.13, Hebrews 6.10). It is an undertaking that takes place in a wonderful celebration, which has in mind to celebrate the brilliance of Jesus Christ. If you answered the four questions in your heart, you can be sure that when the Lord's wonderful feast happens, you will be together with him and his (2 Thessalonians 2.14).
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