WHY WERE YOU BORN?

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Once, St. Francis of Assisi put his hand on the shoulder of a young monk and said, “Brother, let us go down into town to preach.”

So they went out and down the streets and through the market-place.

When they had walked for several miles, St. Francis turned back, retraced his steps and once again, they entered the Monastery.

“But Father,” asked the young monk, “When shall we begin to preach?”

“We have been preaching,” was the reply, “As we walked, we were observed; our manner, our behavior, what we stand for. We have been preaching.

A sermon seen is better than a sermon said any day of the week.

People forget the fine phrases we preachers put together much more easily than they forget what we do…and the same is no less of a truth for you…the reader of these words.

The eye takes a million photographs and more hour by hour, minute by minute…and the printouts are on minds and souls and hearts and the very fiber of our being.

What have your hands done in the last hour, the last day, the last week…the whole of your lifetime.

What good have they accomplished?

What dream or goal did they allow to die along the side of some long forgotten road? Is it really too late to resurrect some dream or goal? I think not.

Your tongue is a moving platform, a noisy instrument that constantly breaks the silence with its utterances…blessings, curses?

Your feet, where do they take you and it is good where you are going or have been…or not so good at all.

Honor…does it speak to you often and do you listen to its admonitions.

Teacher, for that is who and what you are.

What do you daily teach your friends, your family, strangers upon the streets.

They are all watching you and listening to you and learning from you what you think is important in this adventure called life.

They miss nothing and you know it an I know and we know it and we are the better off for such knowledge if we but allow ourselves to become more wise.

The first question in the Westminster Catechism is “What is the chief end of man?”
And the answer is, “To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.”
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