Just because it's free doesn't mean it's free (standard:humor, 903 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Feb 26 2012	Views/Reads: 2441/1638	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Whenever somebody mentions the word "free" in my presence my right eye turns a vivid jaundice. It is not that I have anything against the word free; just the person who is trying to use it to gain some kind of an advantage over me. I know anybod

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bit guilty but then I remembered who was on the other end of the phone. 
Somebody that was trying to con me with some kind of free thingamajig. 

"The ‘Napoleon-two-Claws' home security program that I have in my house
is my cat. I call him Napoleon because he walks around with his right 
paw stuck in his coat between two buttons." 

There was an extended pause on the other end of the phone and finally he
said, "What would you do, sir, if someone broke into your house?" 

"I'd send flowers to the funeral." 

"The funeral? Who's funeral?" 

"Why, the funeral of the guy who tried to break into my house while
‘Napoleon-two-Claws' was on duty. The first moment an intruder would 
enter into my home, good old Napoleon would claw that sorry person to 
death." 

Then feeling good about my momentum at this point I continued, "I live
there and I have a hard time getting in my house without being clawed 
to death by Napoleon. And I feed the cat. My cat is the meanest, 
grumpiest, cantankerous animal on God's green earth. If anybody, and I 
mean anybody, can get past Napoleon they can have anything in my house. 
Absolutely free." 

At that moment, I heard a distinctive "click" and I realized our
conversation was over. I guess whatever he had that was free did not 
measure up to good old ‘Napoleon-two-Claws'. 

The only one I trust to give me something is God. "Come unto me, all ye
that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 
11:28). 

What Jesus gives is absolutely free. 


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