Fun Facts

The following “fun facts” came to me by way of an email forwarded from my daughter-in-law:

 Pearls melt in vinegar
 35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
 A duck's quack doesn't echo... and nobody knows why.
 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down, hence the expression: "getting fired."
 Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks as if it is kissing the conveyor belt.
 The HIGHEST point in Pennsylvania is LOWER than the lowest point in Colorado.
 Only one person in two BILLION will be live to be 116 or older.
 The mask used by in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
 If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
 The fingerprints of koala bears and humans are virtually indistinguishable, so much that they can be confused at a crime scene.

And, of course all of that information is essential to your daily life! It is good for a little bit of a chuckle, isn’t it?

There are so many points of information available to us today. We have been bombarded with data about everything. Sometimes I think I am on “information overload.” It is not unusual to get emailed, faxed, and an automated call about the same thing in a day from General Motors. I suppose they just want to make sure that I got the information they needed to send me! I must confess that it causes me to not read everything as carefully as I should sometimes. I take the priority of the information for granted. If we’re not careful, in information of God’s grace we have in the Scripture is the same way. Read the following verses this morning with that thought in mind:

The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:1-7 ESV).

Do you have some “reading” to catch up on? Take the Scripture carefully in your life and see the difference it will make!