Sometimes what a person says points to a contradiction in other areas of life or reasoning. I’m definitely not pointing fingers—I know I have and undoubtedly continue to have contradictions in my life.
Consider the following examples. I recently saw a Facebook post from a pastor who was rejoicing that the Lord visited his church during a Wednesday night service and saved a soul. The post read something like, “God still shows up on Wednesday night. One soul saved.” Interestingly, God must not be expected to appear any longer on Sunday evenings after COVID, as this same pastor’s church hasn’t had a regular Sunday evening service since. There are many who cannot be in crowds at church for fear of contagion but are able to attend work, family gatherings and leisure events with untold numbers of people with no concern at all for their health.
Another minister once stood across the bed from a young man in ICU. This patient had suffered from a debilitating disease from his birth. The minister looked across the bed at the boy’s mother and said, “Sister, if you were living for the Lord this wouldn’t have happened.”
Had that minister never read the story in John 9: 1-3 (KJV)?

1And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

Did this same pastor take the blame for his own son’s death some time later because the pastor was not living for the Lord? Did he blame others, whose lack of living for the Lord possibly caused his son’s death? Perhaps it would be best to consider the words of Matthew 7: 3-5 (KJV):

[3] And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
[4] Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
[5] Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

A wonderful Porter Wagoner song that you can find on YouTube makes the point of these verses so well—“Be Careful of Stones That You Throw.”
The family of an elderly lady who was ill took her to her regular family doctor. The patient was diabetic and suffered from chronic diarrhea. Nothing seemed to help. The patient’s son asked the doctor if his mother’s diarrhea could result from a bad gall bladder, as other doctors had mentioned that she was “chock full” of gall stones. The lady’s doctor replied, “Symptoms don’t indicate that.”
About a week later, this lady was in the hospital for emergency surgery to have her “dead and rotten” gall bladder removed. The lady developed septic poisoning as a result of her diseased gall bladder and died within the month. When her son asked the doctor how someone’s gall bladder could “rot and die” inside without causing agonizing physical pain, the doctor replied, “Diabetics don’t feel pain like we do.”
Duh! Did the doctor forget that he was treating this woman for diabetes when he reasoned that symptoms didn’t indicate that her gall bladder was a problem? There is a difference in knowledge and wisdom. Perhaps a good definition of wisdom is “the ability to apply knowledge well.” Remember—knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Someone who worked at a pizza parlor observed a man ordering a small pizza to go. He appeared to be alone and the cook asked him if he would like it cut into four pieces or six. He thought about it for some time, then said, “Just cut it into four pieces; I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat six pieces.”
Such people walk among us, and they vote!
Thank you for letting me share my soapbox with you, Dear Reader. I have been talking with several people over the past few months who seem concerned with weight, so I will discuss weight in regard to food as pertains to our Southern region. Join me next time for an article titled “I’m Hip!”
I leave you with a meditation on the perfection of nature I received in an email some time ago.

How wise the Lord is in all His works of Creation!

Each Watermelon has an even number of stripes on the Rind.

Each Orange has an even number of segments.

Each ear of Corn has an even number of rows.

Each stalk of Wheat has an even number of grains.

Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row
an even number of Bananas,
and each row decreases by one,
so that one row has an even number
and the next row an odd number.