Today's promise: God is always ready to
help us and expects us to help others
Sacrificial Love
"Don't forget to
do good and to share what you have with those in need, for such sacrifices are
very pleasing to God."
Hebrews 13:16 NLT
In His steps
Have you seen kids
wearing bracelets with the initials WWJD — "What Would Jesus Do?" The
story behind those bracelets begins a century ago, when a minister named
Charles Sheldon wrote a novel titled In His Steps. One Sunday morning at
First Church, Pastor Henry Maxwell is preaching a sermon about how to follow
Christ's example of sacrificial love.
The service is suddenly interrupted when a tramp stands up. He's been out of work for a year, he says, yet not one person in town has helped him find another job. Twisting his shabby hat in his hands, the tramps says, "I was wondering if what you call following Jesus is the same thing as what he taught.…I get puzzled when I see so many Christians living in luxury and remember how my wife died in a tenement.…what would Jesus do?" At that point, to the congregation's horror, the tramp collapses and dies.
The following Sunday, the minister makes a stunning proposal: He's looking for volunteers willing to pledge themselves for an entire year to do nothing without first asking, "What would Jesus do?" Some fifty people make the pledge, and a remarkable series of events begins.
Some of these people pay a high price for their obedience. But they also learn the joy of following faithfully in his footsteps.
A few years ago, a Holland, Michigan, youth leader was so inspired by this classic story that she had bracelets made bearing the letters WWJD and gave them to the kids in her church. The idea caught fire, and today millions wear them.
Adapted from How Now Shall We Live? Devotional by Charles Colson (Tyndale) pp 585-86
The service is suddenly interrupted when a tramp stands up. He's been out of work for a year, he says, yet not one person in town has helped him find another job. Twisting his shabby hat in his hands, the tramps says, "I was wondering if what you call following Jesus is the same thing as what he taught.…I get puzzled when I see so many Christians living in luxury and remember how my wife died in a tenement.…what would Jesus do?" At that point, to the congregation's horror, the tramp collapses and dies.
The following Sunday, the minister makes a stunning proposal: He's looking for volunteers willing to pledge themselves for an entire year to do nothing without first asking, "What would Jesus do?" Some fifty people make the pledge, and a remarkable series of events begins.
Some of these people pay a high price for their obedience. But they also learn the joy of following faithfully in his footsteps.
A few years ago, a Holland, Michigan, youth leader was so inspired by this classic story that she had bracelets made bearing the letters WWJD and gave them to the kids in her church. The idea caught fire, and today millions wear them.
Adapted from How Now Shall We Live? Devotional by Charles Colson (Tyndale) pp 585-86
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