Two Brothers
Theme for this Week: Make Yourself Available
Billy Graham
Sunday, March 3, 2002
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Two Brothers
Theme for this Week: Make Yourself Available
Sunday, March 3
Key Bible Verse: Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? … Listen, and I will tell you where to get food that is good for your soul! (Isaiah 55:2). Bonus Reading:Matthew 13:44–46
Nearly 200 years ago there were two Scottish brothers named John and David Livingstone.
John had set his mind on making money and becoming wealthy, and he did. But under his name in an old edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica John Livingstone is listed simply as “the brother of David Livingstone.”
And who was David Livingstone?
While John had dedicated himself to making money, David had knelt and prayed. Surrendering himself to Christ, he resolved, “I will place no value on anything I have or possess unless it is in relationship to the Kingdom of God.”
The inscription over the burial place in Westminster Abbey of this famous missionary and explorer of the “dark continent” reads, “For thirty years his life was spent in an unwearied effort to evangelize.”
On his fifty-ninth birthday, David Livingstone wrote, ”My Jesus, my King, my Life, my All; I again dedicate my whole self to Thee.”
—Billy Graham, quoted in Thoughts That Shaped the Church
Adapted from: Thoughts That Shaped the Church (Tyndale, 2000).
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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March/April 2002,Vol. 5,No. 2
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