IT'S A LIE!

IT'S A LIE!

A man was in the habit of never accepting responsibility for his actions. He would always respond to every accusation, even if was true, with a familiar refrain, "It's a lie!"

One day, in an attempt to save his new car from being dented by a careless bicycle rider, he jumped between the rider and the car, and in the process, saved the rider from an accident. The man did not recognize the rider was the King's nephew. The gratfeful king invited the man to a surprise feast in his honour and a brand new car as a gift. "Is it true you jumped between a rider and your car?" Thinking it was another accusation, the man responded, "It's a lie!" Thereupon, the king turned the feast into a celebration of his nephew's life. In a twist of fate, the nephew also got promoted from a bicycle rider to a car owner.

DO NOT JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER

There is the story of a preacher visiting the tallest building in a city where he had just given a motivational sermon. One of the things he said was to never judge a book by its cover. Things and people are not always what or who they seem. "Dig deeper," he said, "The best water is not found on the surface." He advised his listeners to seek for clarification and search for information about things and people before jumping into conclusions.

After stepping out of the magnificent building, he saw a man smoking away. He couldn't bear the fact that someone was smoking in front of a monumental edifice. Without seeking for clarification, the preacher said to the smoker, "Are you not ashamed to be smoking in front of a building like this?" The smoker threw away the cigarette in obedience. "With that obedience," the preacher says boisterously, "I prophesy success into your life. You will put up a building like this someday." When the man did not say amen, the preacher asked why. The man replied, "I do not plan to pull down this building and build another, sir." "Nobody is asking you to pull down any building. You will build your own. That's the word." As the man moves away, "You don't understand, sir. I built and own this building."

IS THE GRASS REALLY GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE?

The story is told of a man who is about to leave his wife because he thinks she is arrogant and materialistic. He asks God for options. God, obliging, asks him to come on a trip with him. On the way, they stay in the home of a lady who warmly welcomes them, washes their feet and gives them food kneeling humbly before them. "This is unlike my arrogant wife," the man volunteers. God responds: "Will you still have her if you knew she was insolent and untidy?" "No, Lord," comes the quick response, "I can't stick an insolent and untidy wife." The woman's beautiful cousin comes in to clean up the table. Her simple dress and subdued makeup endears her to the man. He asks their hostess, "How come your cousin is so simple?" "Don't mind her. She thinks money is not everything and that material things are secondary to more important issues of life." Impressed, he asks God, "Can I have her? In fact, I will like to have her!" "Okay," says God, "but please allow her to take her hypertension pills. Besides, you have to go to school on how to tame a woman with a sharp tongue." The man stands up and says, "Can I still have my wife?" The Lord responds, "Your arrogant and materialistic wife?" "Yes, my arrogant and materialist wife!" "Yes, you can! On the condition that you promise not to trouble me on this issue again." "I promise."

Doesn't the grass always seem greener on the other side?