Late Night Insight
Theme of the Week: Taking God's Dare
Sunday, January 19, 2003
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Key Bible Verse: What do you have that God hasn't given you? (1 Corinthians 4:7). Bonus Reading:Romans 12:1, 6-8
In July 1999 David Letterman was interviewing Leigh Nash, lead singer for the pop music group Sixpence None the Richer, on his Late Show. He asked Nash to explain how her band got that unusual name.
She replied, "It comes from the book Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis. A little boy asks his father [for] a sixpence [coin] … to buy a gift for his father. The father gladly accepts the gift but realizes he's not any richer because he gave his son the money in the first place."
Letterman summed it up then, saying, "So he really bought his own gift."
"That's right," Nash continued. "C. S. Lewis was comparing that to his belief that God had given him and us the gifts that we possess, and to serve [God] the way we should, we should do it humbly, realizing how we got the gifts in the first place."
Letterman, though not a professed Christian, took in that concept and responded: "Well, that's beautiful."
Dave is right. It is beautiful that God wouldn't ask anything of us that He's not willing first to give.
—Greg Clugston in Christianity Today
Adapted from Christianity Today (10/2/00) by permission.
Copyright © 2003 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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