Presenting ...
... a weekly letter of encouragement.
Singapore
June 7, 1995
Good Morning!
How would you like to be able to communicate God's word to
others in an eloquent fashion ?
Or have the ability to plumb the depths of the most profound
spiritual truths?
Or be able to pray for a person's healing in perfect confidence
that God will answer?
What about the courage to sell all your belongings and move
to central Africa to reach the most impoverished of peoples?
Or have unflinching commitment to Christ -- even to the point
of facing a firing squad?
It all sounds so very noble doesn't it!? BUT WHAT
GOD REALLY WANTS FROM US IS:
- To be PATIENT with our wife when she asks us to
go shopping with her all Saturday afternoon.
- To be KIND to the scrubby pony-tailed dropout with
the bone through his nose.
- To genuinely take PLEASURE in the knowledge that
our competitor is knocking them dead at the cash register.
- To DEFLECT ATTENTION AWAY FROM OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
in deference to others.
- To BE GRACIOUS toward those among us who stand to
profit us nothing.
- To PUT ASIDE OUR INTERESTS for the benefit of others
- To FORGIVE those who have ripped us off.
- To LIVE MAGNANIMOUSLY, TRUSTING GOD AMIDST DIFFICULT
CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH WE CANNOT CHANGE.
- To KEEP THE FAITH TO THE END, WHEN EVERYTHING AROUND
US SEEMS TO BE CRUMBLING.
This, my friends is the love of Christ, (as expressed
in I Corinthians 13), applied in the crucible of life's daily
realities. If we fail here, no amount of giftedness or
personal sacrifice is of any consequence.
My prayer is that you are having a great week!
Dwight Hill
© Copyright 1996 Dwight Hill. Unlimited permission to copy or use is hereby granted subject to inclusion of this copyright notice.
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