Good Morning, America
Theme for the Week: Setting Priorities
Malcolm Muggeridge
Monday, August 6, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first (Matthew 19:30).
Bonus Reading: Matthew 19:22-30
I escorted Mother Teresa into a New York television studio to be interviewed on a network morning show, a program that helps Americans from coast to coast to munch their breakfast cereal and gulp down their breakfast coffee.
It was the first time Mother Teresa had been in an American television studio, and she was quite unprepared for the constant interruptions for commercials. As it happened surely as a result of divine interventionall the commercials that particular morning were to do with different varieties of packaged food, recommended as being non-fattening and non-nourishing. Mother Teresa looked at them with a kind of wonder, her own constant preoccupation being, of course, to find the wherewithal to nourish the starving and put some flesh on human skeletons. It took sometime for the irony of the situation to strike her. When it did, she remarked in a perfect audible voice: "I see that Christ is needed in television studios." A total silence descended on all present, and I fully expected the lights to go out and the floor manager to drop dead. Reality had momentarily intruded into one of the media's mills of fantasyan unprecedented occurrence.
Malcolm Muggeridge in Christ and the Media Respond:
Where is my world in need of Christ?
Thought to Apply:
People are always more important than things; men are always more important than money.
William Barclay (British pastor, writer, 20th century)
Adapted from: Christ and the Media
Copyright © 2001 by the author or Christianity Today, Inc./Men of Integrity magazine.
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Lord Jesus, thank You for using the hard times of life to rearrange my priorities.
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