HANDS (2nd in Series)

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When a discussion on being a Christian comes up, why such emphasis on service?  Because service is the rent we pay for the space we occupy.  Hear this poem and consider it:

Christ has no hands but our hands

to do His work today.

Christ has no feet but our feet

to lead men in His way.

Christ has no tongue but our tongue

to tell men how He died.

Christ has no help but our help

to lead men to His side.

We are the only Bible

this careless world will read.

We are the sinner’s gospel,

we are the scoffers creed.

We are the worlds last message

written in deed and word.

What if the print is crooked,

what if the type is blurred?

What if our hands are busy

with other work than His?

What if our feet are walking

where sin’s allurement is?

What if our tongues are speaking

of things His lips would spurn?

How can we hope to help Him,

and hasten His return?

                                                                                                                        (Anonymous)

 

Committing the golden rule to memory is of little value until it is committed to life. 

Never did I sit down with my children and suggest they set as a goal for their lives and living the accomplishment of failure. 

To do nothing, and be nothing. 

Never did I suggest that great happiness would come their way if they gave up easily; had no morals; were mental, emotional, physical and spiritual slobs. 

Always I admonished them to excel, to achieve, to dream. 

And if it is true of me, can something less be expected from our heavenly Father?  From the 10 Commandments to the Beatitudes to the admonitions to love and forgive beyond compare, does not God set before us superlatives? 

Wanting us to be doers rather than deadheads. 

To give blessings rather than curses.  To seek solutions rather than problems.  To be peacemakers rather than provokers.  To be builders rather than destroyers.

James 2:14-17

 

“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”

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