I Thought He was a Stranger!

"We have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."  2 Peter 1:16.  A while back I was speaking with a Hindu neighbor of mine.  I asked her about the significance of the statue of a human body with an elephant head on top of it, for I knew that she worshipped it.  She then explained to me that it was a "cute story."  She said that there once was a man who left his home when his son was very young.  The man was gone for many, many years.  Finally, he came back home.  And when he came back home, he found a stranger in the home, so he cut his head off.  No sooner had he cut the stranger's head off and his wife arrived home.  "What have you done?" asked the wife.  "I found this stranger in our house, so I cut his head off."  "That wasn't a stranger," the wife replied, "that was our son!"  Realizing his mistake, the man quickly ran outside and found the first living thing that he saw--an elephant--and cut its head off.  He then ran back inside the house and placed the elephant's head on the boy and he came back to life.

After my neighbor finished her story, I couldn't help but think of the above-referenced scripture, and be thankful that my faith in Jesus Christ is not based upon a cunningly devised fable.  Is your faith built on rock solid truth?  Or is it built on a cunningly devised fable?