The Question (Dr. Robert Farrar) 0comments
published in 2009-12-21 17:20:00
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Are you principally rich poor or blessed?Some years ago when the economy was depressed in a very small cathedral in a poor section of town a boy and his two sisters felt challenged when it was an ...
Are you principally rich poor or blessed?
Some years ago when the economy was depressed in a very small cathedral in a poor section of town a boy and his two sisters felt challenged when it was announced that a special offering was going to be taken on a particular date to help a poor family. They earned cash by baby-sitting housecleaning and doing yard jobs. They also made pot holders to sell. By the announced date they had seventy dollars which they converted to three twenty-dollar bills and a ten dollar bill. They could scarcely wait to get to church.
That afternoon the preacher showed up at their home with the envelope! After he left they found eighty-seven dollars in it: three twenty-dollar bills a ten-dollar bill and seventeen one-dollar bills. The children had never felt so poor in all their lives.
The next Sunday the children were silent like they went to church. The speaker was a missionary who told how one-hundred dollars could put a roof on a church in Africa. And the children decided to put that eighty-seven dollars they had been given back into the offering. The missionary exclaimed when he heard that just through one-hundred dollars was donated “This church must have a rich family!”
During this Christmas season Christians round the world are focused on God giving His Son. As we talk with others especially children before and behind Christmas instead of “What do you want for Christmas?” and “What did you get for Christmas?” being the focal points of our conversations make the focus “What did you give for Christmas?”
As Jesus said “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” And whether we are rich or
poor we are blessed.
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