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HI all.
After reading this story, I wanted to share it with you.
Sometimes we just take things for granted, when we really need to be sharing what we know
this is a wonderful example of doing the will of God, loving Him and neighbor.
A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago . They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday nightās dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boardingā¦
ALL BUT ONE !!!
He paused, took a deep breath, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.
He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor.
He was glad he did.
The 16 year old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.
The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.
When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, āHere, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?ā She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, āI hope we didnāt spoil your day too badly.ā
As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, āMisterā¦ā He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued,
āAre you Jesus?ā
He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul:
āAre you Jesus?ā
Do people mistake you for Jesus?
Thatās our Destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.
I am sure someone has a story where they touched someoneās heart with Godly love when they did not expect it.
I invite anyone to share your story here
If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would.
Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church.
Itās actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.
You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.
God bless you and your family
Too many christians are no longer fishers of men but keepers of the aquarium
mpjw
After reading this story, I wanted to share it with you.
Sometimes we just take things for granted, when we really need to be sharing what we know
this is a wonderful example of doing the will of God, loving Him and neighbor.
A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago . They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday nightās dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boardingā¦
ALL BUT ONE !!!
He paused, took a deep breath, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.
He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor.
He was glad he did.
The 16 year old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.
The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.
When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, āHere, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?ā She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, āI hope we didnāt spoil your day too badly.ā
As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, āMisterā¦ā He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued,
āAre you Jesus?ā
He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul:
āAre you Jesus?ā
Do people mistake you for Jesus?
Thatās our Destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.
I am sure someone has a story where they touched someoneās heart with Godly love when they did not expect it.
I invite anyone to share your story here
If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would.
Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church.
Itās actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.
You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.
God bless you and your family
Too many christians are no longer fishers of men but keepers of the aquarium
mpjw