In academic terms, a cheat sheet is a concise collection of facts used for quick reference. In the news world, it is a smart summary of articles and must-reads from the Internet. In the computing world, it is a list of shortcuts to quicker and more efficient data management.
What does it mean in the spiritual world? Is cheat sheet Christianity something we should strive to emulate?
In education, rote memory has been thrown out with the bathwater. The very fact that a student has gathered the information in a concise form is a learning activity on its own. Students are often allowed to use cheat sheets at the college level, and for good reason. The students are smarter for having made them.
In the news world, cheat sheets keep us from becoming overwhelmed. Any good news website is presented in a cheat sheet format. We read the data blurbs, learning the basic information, and we only click on the ones we wish to read about in detail. Our time is maximized, and we don’t become bogged down with unnecessary information.
The computing world is the same. When we use cheat sheets, we are not cheating at all. Rather, we are using what others have created for us as useful tools, and we are applying them so that we can work efficiently. It would be impossible for us to memorize every single shortcut on the computer. A cheat sheet is the only way.
Revelation 17:7 gives us an example of God’s cheat sheet in action. John witnessed a scene he could hardly understand. A woman stood before him drunken with the blood of the Saints and of the martyrs of Jesus. He was dumbfounded in amazement.
Then the angel of the Lord pulled out God’s cheat sheet, telling John, “I have all the answers, and I will tell you of the mysteries of this woman.”
Cheat sheet Christianity. It is good, isn’t it? Our cheat sheet is the Bible. We know the beginning, the end, and all the events in between. If that’s not a cheat sheet, then what is?
Check out God’s cheat sheet once in a while. Christians call it the Word of God. It is the Holy Bible, and it gives us all the answers we need.
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