Hiroshima Hero
Theme of the Week: Marks of a Servant
Rubel Shelly
Friday, April 4, 2003
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Key Bible Verse: Such crowds soon surrounded Jesus that he couldn't enter a town anywhere publicly (Mark 1:45). Bonus Reading:Mark 1:29-2:5
When the first atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, Dr. Fumio Shigeto was waiting for a streetcar about a mile from the blast center. Stunned and disoriented, he was sheltered from the worst of its explosive force by a concrete building.
All around him desperately wounded men and women were screaming. One doctor with a tiny black bag still in his hand, he quickly sensed his overwhelming inadequacy. He needed an army of doctors, nurses, and technicians. He needed tons of supplies. He needed every bed in dozens of hospitals. What could one man with so little at his disposal do in the face of such incredible need? Dr. Shigeto opened his medical bag, and began treating the person lying at his feet.
His experience parallels our own. We see such incredible devastation in our world that it's easy to ask what difference one person can make against such formidable odds—and do nothing.
God doesn't expect you to help everybody in need. But there's a hint of what you can and should do in the example of Jesus. Although He preached to huge crowds, He touched and healed people one at a time.
—Rubel Shelly in Starting Today
My Response: One person I could reach out to today is …
Thought to Apply: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
—Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. president)
Adapted fromStarting Today (Broadman & Holman, 2001) by permission.
Copyright © 2003 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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