Deck of Cards
Deck of Cards
It was quiet that day, the guns and the mortars,
and land mines for some reason hadn't been heard.
The young soldier knew it was Sunday,
the holiest day of the week.
As he was sitting there,
he got out an old deck of cards
and laid them out across his bunk.
Just then an army sergeant came in and said ,
“Why aren't you with the rest of the platoon?”
The soldier replied,
“I thought I would stay behind and
spend some time with the Lord.”
The sergeant said,
“Looks to me like you're going to play cards.”
The soldier said, “No, sir.
You see, since we are not allowed to have Bibles
or other spiritual books in this country,
I've decided to talk to the
Lord by studying this deck of cards.”
The sergeant asked in disbelief,
“How will you do that?”
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"You see the
Ace, Sergeant?
It reminds me that there is
only one God.
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The
Two
represents the two parts
of the Bible,
Old and
New Testaments.
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The
Three
represents
the Father,
Son, and the Holy Ghost.
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The
Four
stands for the
Four Gospels:
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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The
Five
is for the five virgins.
There were ten but
only five
of them were glorified.
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The
Six
is for the
six days it took God
to create the Heavens and Earth.
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The
Seven
is for the day
God rested after making His
Creation.
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The
Eight
is for the family of Noah and his wife,
their three sons and their wives –
the
eight people God spared
from
the flood that destroyed
the Earth.
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The
Nine
is for the lepers that Jesus
cleansed of leprosy.
He
cleansed ten,
but nine never thanked Him.
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The
Ten
represents the
Ten Commandments
that God
handed down to Moses on
tablets made of stone.  |
The
Jack
is a reminder of
Satan,
one of God's first angels,
but he got kicked out of heaven
for his sly and wicked ways and is now
the joker of eternal hell.
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The
Queen
stands for the
Virgin Mary.
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The
King
stands for
Jesus,
for He is the
King of all kings.
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When I count the dots on all the cards,
I come up with 365 total, one for every day of
the year.
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