Does God like racquetball?
February 27, 2008
“If she has defiled herself in being unfaithful to her husband, when she drinks the water that delivers a curse, it will enter her body and cause acute pain; her belly will swell and her womb shrivel. She will be cursed among her people. But if she has not defiled herself and is innocent of impurity, her name will be cleared and she will be able to have children.” Numbers 5
Back in the day, if a husband thought that his wife was cheating he would bring her to the temple and find out the truth through a system of drinking water. The priest would curse some water and then have the accused women drink the water. If she had an affair than that cursed water would make her barren for the rest of her life. The Bible says, “Her womb will shrivel up”. If she was innocent than nothing would happen when she consumed the water. Kind of a bizarre way of testing to see if someone is lying or not. An old school lie detector you could say.
My friends and I like to play racquetball from time to time. Sometimes the games can get pretty heated. And there will be moments while playing, because there is no ref on the court that a call maybe challenged. One party says “You just committed a foul”, while the other party will say “NO, I don’t think so”. And then some more bantering will take place, and well, you all know the drill.
So we came up with a system. We decided that when this scenario plays itself out during the game that the person making the call would be tested. We call this the, “Leaving it up to the racquetball God’s to decide if you are right or wrong” method. If the person accused of committing said foul actually did commit the foul, than the next point would be lost during the play of the game. But if the accuser losses the next point than we say “the racquetball God’s have spoken” and move on.
I guess what I am suggesting that we do from now on whenever we disagree on a call is walk over to the drinking fountain and both take a drink. And then study one another’s reaction to the water. Heck, I’m always up for new reffing methods. At least it would be more Biblical.
