signs

Here are a few signs you may not have seen before:

Sign in a veterinarian's waiting room: 

"Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!!"

At a towing company:

"We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want tows."

In a restaurant window:

"Eat now, pay waiter."

Sign on a retail store door in Stevens Point, WI:

"PUSH.

If it doesn't open, PULL.

If it still doesn't open, WE ARE CLOSED."

Sign in school near clock: 

"Time will pass; will you?"

On a display of "I love you only" Valentine cards:

"Now available in multi-packs."

Sign in a dentist's office: 

"Patient parking only. All others will be painfully extracted."

Outside a country shop:

"We buy junk and sell antiques."

Brochure for mountain cabin rentals:

"Lovely honeymoon cabin . . . . sleeps 8"

A sign seen on a restroom dryer at O'Hare Field in Chicago:

"Do not activate with wet hands."

In a Maine restaurant:

"Open 7 days a week and weekends."

In the vestry of a New England church:

"Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is

extinguished."

On a plumber's truck:

"We repair what your husband fixed."

Seen on a billboard along a highway:

"Caution: objects in the mirror may have flunked driver's education."

Signs serve different purposes. Some point the way, others inform, still others issue a warning. The word "sign" appears often in the New Testament (and especially in the gospel of John) in reference to the miracles of Christ. Those signs also serve a purpose.

"And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name." (John 20:30-31).

The signs recorded in scripture serve as a basis for our confidence that Jesus is who he claimed to be. Praise be to Christ who demonstrated God's power time and again!