GREATER LOVE THAN...

(These One A Days are added to each day)

In Michigan, just across the Indiana state- line, there is a little town called Wabemen. In Indian language it means White Pigeon. There is a fascinating story concerning this village and how it was almost destroyed.

It was established in the year 1830 by white settlers come to farm the rich land, and while trading with the Indians, converted some of them to Christianity. One in particular became completely devoted to the settlers.

Peace, however, is a fragile thing, and angered by both real and imagined wrongs, a number of Indians plotted to kill every man, woman and child. One who overheard their plans was the Indian who had come to care so much for his white friends.

Under cover of darkness, he slipped away and sprinted for sixty miles to warn them. Even for his savage strength, it was too much. Staggering into the town meeting house, he breathlessly warned them, and moments later dropped dead at their feet.

In the little village that was named after this Christian Indian there is a monument that reads Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend.

He ran sixty miles to save them, at the cost of his existence. Will you walk six feet to forgive, at perhaps the cost of your precious ego? If your nose is in the air with too much pride your head should be at just the right angle to watch your Savior die. What now of your pride before His humility?

Life does that…calls out for courage and doing what is right and not taking the easy way. And to those who meet whatever challenge comes with the strength of the wise and the persistence of a good and godly life…the world is a little more a better place than a more bitter place.

And God in his heavens, I cannot prove it, but I think he must at such times laugh out loud.

“Love does no wrong to one’s neighbor (it never hurts anybody). Therefore love meets all the requirements and is the fulfilling of the Law.” Romans 13:10

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