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Theme of the Week: Marks of a Servant
Bill McCartney
Thursday, April 3, 2003
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Key Bible Verses: Our hearts are open to you. … Open your hearts to us! (2 Corinthians 6:11, 13) Bonus Reading:2 Corinthians 6:11-13
Randy Murphy drove for 30 years without a driver's license. Why? That's simple: He'd somehow made it through life without being able to read, so he couldn't take the test.
But one day Murphy turned up his car radio and was stopped by Officer Mark Taylor for blaring his music. Taylor wanted to know why Murphy didn't have a license. When he found out Murphy couldn't read, Officer Taylor could have just written a ticket and been done with it. Instead, he offered to help Murphy learn to read. For three months they studied together. Then it took Murphy six times. But with Taylor's help and encouragement, he finally passed the driver's license test. Today the two men are friends and continue to read together.
It's easy to skip a lot of chances to make a difference. Some of them are small, and some are bigger, but they usually present themselves without warning, without giving us time to prepare ourselves to say yes or no—or sometimes even to think about it. Consequently, we must develop the necessary character so that when those moments of opportunity arrive, there's no hesitation between seeing the need and acting.
—Bill McCartney in 4th and Goal
My Response: Am I willing to serve the "undeserving"?
Thought to Apply: Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
—Albert Schweitzer (French missionary doctor to Africa)
Adapted from4th and Goal (Tyndale, 2002) by permission.
Copyright © 2003 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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