Good Friday Morning!
1. Question – Are you dissatisfied with yourself?
2. Thought – Perhaps you are very dissatisfied with
yourself. You are not a genius, have no distinctive gifts,
and are inconspicuous when it comes to having any special
abilities. Mediocrity seems to be the measure of your
existence. None of your days are noteworthy, except for
their sameness and lack of zest. Yet in spite of this you
may live a great life.
John the Baptist never performed a miracle, but Jesus said
of him, “Among those born of women there is no one
greater” (Luke 7:28). His mission was to be “a
witness to the light” (John 1:8), and that may be
your mission and mine. John was content to be only a
voice, if it caused people to think of Christ.
Be willing to be only a voice that is heard but not seen,
or a mirror whose glass the eye cannot see because it is
reflecting the brilliant glory of the Son. Be willing to
be a breeze that arises just before daylight, saying,
“The dawn! The dawn!” and then fades away.
Do the most everyday and insignificant tasks knowing that
God can see you. If you live with difficult people, win
them over through love. If you once made a great mistake
in life, do not allow it to cloud the rest of your life,
but by locking it secretly in your heart, make it yield
strength and character.
We are doing more good than we know. The things we do
today – sowing seeds or sharing simple truths about
Christ – people will someday refer to as the first
things that prompted them to think of Him. For my part, I
will be satisfied not to have some great tombstone over my
grave but just to know that common people will gather
there once I am gone and say “He was a good man. He
never performed any miracles, but he told me about Christ,
which led me to know Him for myself.” (George
Matheson, from Streams in the Desert, by L.B. Cowman
-February 24th devotional)
“Indeed this is the best part of my job. In
every given year the pupils I really like are in a
minority; but there is hardly a year in which I do not
make some real friend. I am glad that people become
more and more one of the sources of pleasure as I grow
older.”
(C.S. Lewis)
DON”T TEXT AND DRIVE. Read and be good!