There was a young man named Fred, from the mountains of eastern Tennessee. He was the poster child for lazy and no-good. When he was called up for duty in the Army during the Vietnam War, Fred had high hopes that he would be exempted because of he had double vision.
The doctor said, "See that chart on the wall over there?"
"Not very well, Doc. It's all blurry," said Fred.
"You've passed," said the doctor.
Fred protested, "What do you mean I passed? How can I pass when I told you it's all blurry?"
And the doctor replied, "That was your hearing test."
Have you ever noticed that sometimes life seems to be one big test, one Super-sized Temptation. And in the midst of that test and temptation, sometimes, when we succumb to temptation, we get away with it. Sometimes we don't suffer any imm…