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This Week's Theme: Encouragers—Acts 14-28
Friday, June 22, 2001
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Friday, June 22 I am sending him to you for the express purpose that.
he may encourage your hearts (Colossians 4:8).
Bonus Reading:Acts 27:33-36
Sister Helen Mrosia writes: In an earlier grade, I'd taped Mark's mouth shut for talking too much in class. Now he was one of my students in junior high math.
We'd worked hard on a new concept; by Friday the students were getting cranky. So, for a break, I asked them to write the nicest thing they could about each other student, and hand it in. I compiled the results for each student and, on Monday, gave out the lists.
Several years later, Mark was killed in Vietnam. After the funeral, most of his former classmates headed with his parents and me to Chuck's farmhouse for lunch. Mark's father took a wallet out of his pocket. "They found this on Mark when he was killed," he said. He carefully removed a folded, refolded, and taped paperthe one on which I'd listed the good things Mark's classmates had said about him.
Charlie smiled sheepishly and said, "I keep my list in my desk drawer."
Chuck's wife said, "Chuck put his in our wedding album."
"I have mine, too," Marylin said. "In my diary."
Vicky reached into her pocketbook and displayed her frazzled list.
John Trent in Choosing to Live the Blessing
Respond:
Have I underestimated the power of an encouraging word?
Thought to Apply:
People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to benot what you nag them to be.
Scudder Parker (speaker)
Adapted from: Choosing to Live the Blessing (Waterbrook, 1997)
For your convenience, Choosing to Live the Blessing is available in the ChristianityToday.com bookstore. 1 of 1
Lord, help me to be a true encourager to someone around me who needs a lift.
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