Computers are truly amazing if one knows what one is doing with the keyboard and mouse. If you’re as illiterate as I many things just don’t seem to work. Early in the life of “home” computers, I desired to have one and got one, somehow. I can’t remember much about it except until “Windows” came out and I had it installed, I just couldn’t get the hang of it. I found out what an illogical person I was, computers being perfectly logical and I could not “work” the blamed thing! Yesterday, I was reminded of that. I worked 2 hours on what a computer guy could have done in 12-15 minutes. Computers: bane of the simple-minded man.
SIMH today was an old one from the OakRidge Boys, “Bobbi Sue.”
Why did whitewall tires go out of style? Recently, I bought a new set of tires for our car and remembered in years past being asked if I wanted whitewall or not. (Long time ago, I know.) Today, not even an option unless you bring it up and wait for your tire store to get them. That’s interesting to me: did “we” quit wanting them? or did “they” quit wanting to make them? I’m pretty sure the large, raised lettering on some big duelly, or sports car tires come in colors and cost extra, but no whitewall tires, hmm.
I have this friend who buys and sells motorized vehicles of all sorts–sort of a secondary income thing–and has a story for me every time I see him. It’s remarkable. He always makes several hundred dollars or maybe two thousand on his deals. Buy low, sell high. Assuming he’s telling me the truth, he’s quite a wheeler-dealer, impresario maybe. His latest was an eleven year old luxury car he bought for $5G, drove it to a tire place for a set of tires, went into a restaurant and was offered a thousand dollar profit. He said no, he wanted to drive it a while. Drove home and some man offered him $1500 and he took it. Made $1500 in one day with one car and never had to even run an ad. Wanna know what if had been me bought that car? It would have stopped running before I got to the restaurant, or when they put tires on it they would have found 7 other things wrong, and it would have been 3 months, 53 people would have come looked at it, and I would have “cut my losses and run” with a $22 profit. Sheeesh!
AND ANOTHER THING: “(Christ) was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.” If there were sins still charged to us, how could Christ have been “raised for our justification”? Once He took the sin (sins) did He then bring them up again? No, the word is “delivered” He delivered the debt for payment, it was accepted. No more sin (sins). Done deal. And, as in Eph.2:5, we were “quickened” when Christ was “quickened.” “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”
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