Dear Readers,
The title of today’s article sums up what is most important in our short lives now, as the result will last forever.
An e-mail last night, on 17.9.17, from James Pitts–a great friend who also featured in Blog Post #2–reminded me that he and I had talked back in April about the special number 153, which equals 17×9. (1x1x1)+(5x5x5)+(3x3x3) also makes 153, and that was the tremendous number of fish which apostles of Jesus caught in the Sea of Galilee after they followed Jesus’ advice to cast their empty net into the sea, and to trust Him regarding the results.
If we have faith in God, and love Him and His people as He loves us, then we can look forward to enjoying eternity in Heaven after our short lives now.
FAITH+FATHER=HEAVEN
A beautiful sum is
FAITH
+ FATHER
_________
= HEAVEN
Each letter stands for a particular digit from 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9.
As we’re in the year 2017, and also since this is Blog Post #17, I’m going to say that we’ll let E=1 and A=7 throughout the sum. Your fun challenge now is to determine exactly what numbers all the other letters will have to be.
FISHY JOKE!
How do you make a squid laugh twice?
Start with 8 tickles and then 2 more…that makes ten-tickles!!
DON’T BE GREEDY!
Why does the greedy capture 1 Nxb5? lose for White?
PUZZLE SOLUTIONS
FAITH+FATHER=HEAVEN
If A=7, then the unique solution to the (normal base 10) sum
FAITH
+ FATHER
_________
= HEAVEN
is V=0, E=1 (this was actually given as a bonus clue), N=2, F=3, H=4, I=5, R=8, T=9
37594
+ 379418
________
= 417012
Many sincere congratulations if you tried the puzzle, and especially if you found some or all of the correct letter values.
DON’T BE GREEDY!
1 Nxb5? loses to 1…Na5! 2 Qd3 Bxb5! 3 Qxb5 Rb8, as the rook then skewers White’s queen & the loose bishop on b2.
I will finish this article with a good quote: “In humility, value others above yourselves; not looking to your own interests, but each of you to the interests of others”–from Philippians 2.
Paul Motwani 