Whatever Happen To Honesty?

Illus: This story occurred in Florida.

A young lady was soaking up the sun's rays on a Florida beach when a little six year old boy in his swimming trunks, carrying a towel, and a quarter in his hand came up to her and asked her a number of questions:

He said…

• "Do you believe in God?"

• She was surprised by the question but replied, "Why, yes, I do."

• Then he asked her: "Do you go to church every Sunday?"

• Again, her answer was "Yes!"

• Then he asked: "Do you read your Bible and pray every day?"

• Again she said, "Yes!"

By now her curiosity was very much aroused by a little boy asking such personal question.

At last the lad with sigh of relief said, "Will you hold my quarter while I go swimming?"

He was looking for an honest person to hold his quarter while he went swimming while he went swimming.

Also we are always looking for an honest person we can trust when we have work done on our…

• Car we look for an honest mechanic.

• Home needs repairing we look for an honest contractor.

• Roof on our homes need to be replaced we look for an honest roofer.

• Our house needs painting we look for an honest painter.

• We need an electrician we look for an honest electrician.

Not any of us want to deal with a dishonest man or woman!!!

We frequently hear horrible stories of contractors getting a large down payment for job and never returning to do the job.

We look for honest people that we can trust.

• People who will be honest in all their dealings?

• People whose walk matches their talk?

• People who keep the promises they make?

• People whose word is their bond?

Everyone is looking for honest people to deal with and so is God.

Christian people should be the most honest people on the face of the earth.

Illus: Sports Illustrated told a story of seven year old boy just starting to play the game of baseball. (Let me read you the story)

The game was played in Wellington, Florida.

In this story this seven-year-old first baseman, Tanner Munsey, fielded a ground ball and tried to tag a runner going from first to second base.

The umpire, Laura Benson, called the runner out.

But young Tanner immediately ran to her side and said, "Ma'am, I didn't tag the runner."

Umpire Benson reversed herself, sent the runner to second base, and Tanner's coach gave him the game ball for his honesty.

Two weeks later, Laura Benson was again the umpire and Tanner was playing shortstop when a similar play occurred.

This time Benson ruled that Tanner had missed the tag on a runner going to third base, and she called the runner safe.

Tanner looked at the umpire Benson and without saying a word, tossed the ball to the catcher and returned to his position.

Umpire sensed something was wrong. "Did you tag the runner?" she asked Tanner.

His reply: "Yes."

Benson then called the runner out.

The opposing coaches protested until she explained what had happened two weeks earlier and he agreed the boy was telling the truth

Such honesty God approves of it.

• Where are the Tanner Munseys in our world?

• Does anyone tell the truth anymore?

Illus: A police officer pulls over a speeding car.

• The officer says, ‘I clocked you at 80 miles per hour, sir.’

• The driver says, ‘Gee, officer I had it on cruise control at 60; perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating.’

• Not looking up from her knitting the wife says, ‘Now don’t be silly dear, you know this car doesn’t have cruise control!

• As the officer writes out the ticket, the driver looks over at his wife and growls, ‘can’t you please keep quiet for once?’

• The wife smiles and says, ‘You should be thankful your radar detector went off when it did.’

• As the officer makes out the second ticket for the illegal radar detector unit, the man looks at his wife again and says through clenched teeth, ‘Woman, can’t you keep quiet?!!!!!!’

• The officer frowns and says, ‘And I notice that you’re not wearing your seat belt, sir. That’s an automatic $75 fine.’

• The driver says, ‘Yeah, well, you see officer, I had it on, but took it off when you pulled me over so that I could get my license out of my back pocket.’

• The wife says, ‘Now, dear, you know very well that you didn’t have your seat belt on. You never wear your seat belt when you’re driving.’

• And as the police officer is writing out the third ticket the driver turns to his wife and barks, ‘WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET!’