Come with me to a third grade classroom.....
There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is
a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine
how this has happened.
It's never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out he will never hear the end of it. When
the girls find out, they'll never speak to him again as long as he lives.
The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his
head down and prays this prayer, 'Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat.'
He looks
up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered.
As the teacher is walking toward
him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably
dumps the bowl of water in the boy's lap.
The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, 'Thank you, Lord! Thank
you, Lord!'
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him
downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning
up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred
to someone else - Susie
She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. You've done enough, you klutz!'
Finally, at the end of the
day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, 'You did that on purpose, didn't you?' Susie
whispers back, 'I wet my pants once too.'
May God help us see the opportunities that are always around us to do good..
Remember.....Just
going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
Each and everyone one of us is
going through tough times right now, but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that only He can. Keep the faith
The Prayer:
Father,
I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, who are reading this right now. Show them a new revelation
of Your love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. Where there is pain, give them Your
peace and mercy...
Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace.
Where there is need, I ask you
to fulfill their needs. Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings.
Amen.
