Riddle me this

Read and answer these four questions.

1. How do you put a giraffe in a refrigerator?

2. How you put an elephant in a refrigerator?
3. The Lion King is hosting a conference. All of the local animals are in attendance but one. Who is not present?
4. You are slated to be the final speaker at the conference. Unfortunately, to get there you have to swim a river inhabited by crocodiles. What do you do?

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Answers:

1. Open the door and put him in.

2. Take out the giraffe and put in the elephant.

3. The elephant, he is still in the refrigerator.

4. You swim; all of the crocodiles are all ready at the conference.

Explanation: Look for the simplest solution (#1).  Keep things simple (#2). Recall facts (the elephant is still in the refrigerator and thus can’t go to the conference-#3). And, use deductive skills in problem solving (the crocodiles are at the conference- #4).  Side note: Most four year olds score 100% on this.

How did you do? Do you over think things? Constantly analyzing a situation? Replaying that conversation over in your head imagining it going every which way? Well you aren't alone! I stumbled upon this riddle while looking for ice breakers for a group of coworkers and I really enjoyed the lesson it taught.

You might be asking, "How does this relate to my life in Christ?" Well God tells us not to worry. When I'm analyzing a situation wondering whether or not I have enough money to buy this or that, or stressing over a dress that doesn't fit right, I'm worrying (See Matt6:25-33). I'm worrying that God isn't enough. That His sacrifice of His only Son wasn't enough. When I remember that, I realize my worries are so trivial in the scope of eternity. God has a plan far greater than anything I could imagine. Jesus has taken my burdensome worries and given me freedom!

Matthew 6:25-33

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.