Six Sentence Story: Temptation

The devil tempted George to curse the idiots around him, to just lay into them with full force. However, George couldn’t see what good that would do, so – since the devil reminded him of them – he blessed them instead.

Annoyed by George’s disobedience – not that George owed the devil any obedience whatsoever – the devil then reminded him that his silly blessings amounted to a hill of beans on the commodity market of prayers, because everyone knew those idiots weren’t going to change no matter how nice he was to them.

Don’t forget, George, that it is up to them to decide if they want to change, not you which was the only observation the devil made that George could agree with.

Regardless, those blessings were a win-win-win for George.

If nothing happened, as the devil predicted, those George blessed would remain good examples to point out of bad behavior, but if something unexpected happened – something admittedly miraculous in their cases – they would become an awesome fount of blessings for everyone around them and yet no matter what they did by blessing them George at least did what he was told to do: bless, and curse not.

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Denise offers the prompt “market” for this week’s Six Sentence Story.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

23 thoughts on “Six Sentence Story: Temptation”

  7. Excellent prompt word placement!

    “…on the commodity market of prayers” very cool, multi-level/inference both the the market and as a reflection of how the value of prayer can vary from person to person

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  9. see, Frank, this is WHY God continues to point me to your site (to keep me on the straight and narrow)– a reminder of sorts, of what to strive towards. i honestly believe that to be true. i’m also pretty certain my own six sentence story contains a curse word this week (… hmmmmm, a work in progress). many blessings, ren

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  10. If one is to believe in the omniscience of a creator, and said creator saw fit to bestow free will upon his beloved creation- who among us, his humble creations, is fit to decide what is right or what is wrong?

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    1. This is how I see it, Violet:

      We don’t decide. He decides. We obey, if we want to. We have enough free will to obey. We hear Him through the Bible and through the Holy Spirit speaking to us. He even speaks to you.

      Those of us who are believers are, in addition, His temple. His Spirit speaks to our spirits because we are born again.

      If we didn’t have free will we would be robots like the computer I am using to write this. We aren’t robots.

      Regarding “omniscience”, I see a lot of that as an influence of platonic philosophy upon Christianity. I don’t know what such terms mean nor do I much care although there are many Christians who like to use such words. When talking to them I emphasize our ability to choose to do His will regardless of their theology.

      Blessings, Violet!

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