“Truly I say to you,
to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least
of them, you did it to Me.” (Matt.
25:40).
Hey Gang, I know most of you, who avail yourselves to
Gramps Morning Thoughts, have heard the following story but I like it and I am
writing this - so I will share it anyway.
It is the story of a saintly cobbler who learned that he was to receive
a visit from the Lord.
Though poorer than church mice, he
determined to entertain the Lord with the best hospitality he could
manage. He bought a loaf of fine bread,
a fragrant log to make a fire, and prepared a new pair of shoes for the
Master’s feet.
As he waited a starving child came
to his door. There was no way he could
not break out the fine bread and not give it to the starving visitor. When a freezing woman knocked on his door,
the cobbler made a fire with the fragrant log to warm her. And to a young man with bruised and bleeding feet
he gave the fine shoes.
By nightfall the cobbler was disappointed that
the Lord had not yet visited him. “Why
have you not come?” he prayed. But Jesus responded, “I did come – three
times. I was the hungry child, the
freezing woman, and the man with no shoes!”
Paul teaches us that “While we have opportunity, let us do good
to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith”
(Gal. 6:10).
Sooo, turn on your sensitive eyes
and ears this morning and watch for the hungry child, the freezing woman or the
man who had bleeding feet and reach out to them as the Good Samaritan did with
the injured man on the Jericho Road.
Blessings,
Gramps
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