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WHAT IF? MARCH 18 2013
What would have been the
impact on the world if Jesus had sneaked away from Jerusalem under the cover of
darkness rather than end up carrying a cross to Golgotha?
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WHAT DO YOU FEED TIME?
There was a man named Dr. Brackett.
To say that he was unusual in his dedication toward other people would be an understatement.
He started early thinking about others rather than himself and he never wavered.
Most would argue that he carried his dedication too far when on his wedding day he asked his bride to postpone their wedding so he could rush to save a sick, little Mexican boy. She obviously agreed it was too much to ask and called the wedding off.
And this became his life. Not from dawn to dusk, but long before and after, did he work to continually reach thousands in need.
Finally, when he was in his 70’s he died, and his funeral was the largest his little southwestern town had ever seen.
They were poor people. Very, very poor people in this little town and surrounding area, and they could not afford a stone for his grave.
No problem. The dilemma was solved by the parents of the little Mexican boy whose life he had saved on what was to be his wedding day.
Now old and feeble, they nevertheless made their way to his office and with great difficulty carefully pried the brass plate off his door.
It had been there for many years. Now it had a final, highly appropriate resting place, for the next day the brass plate rested on his grave and read rather appropriately “Dr. Brackett – Office Upstairs.” (Sangster, Rewrite of a story in The People Who Ministered to Him.)
What does the scriptural admonition to go the extra mile mean to you? Perhaps it is giving extra time to someone you love rather than one day saying, “I wish I had given more time to this one I loved.”
Time is a friend if we use it wisely, an enemy when we foolishly waste it.
Would you appreciate the value of thirty days - only thirty days?
Speak to a mother who gave birth 30 days too soon to a premature baby.
Would you appreciate the value of a few minutes - just a few minutes?
Think of that day you stood in this church, or some other church, and made your public pledge of faith to Almighty God.
Would you argue as to the worth of such minutes spent?
Would you appreciate the value of one little second? Talk to someone who but for a single second would have been killed in a fatal accident. (Edited, rewritten and shortened from Dynamic Preaching, King Duncan)
A second-mile-person appreciates time and is appalled at how often it is wasted. Just remember, “The future is not a place we are going (to) – (it is) a place we are creating.” (William Jennings Bryan)
“Owe no one anything except to love one another... Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” (Rom. 13:8, 10).
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