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My wife and I have been to Europe a number of times and while there of course had the opportunity to visit and worship in many of their churches and cathedrals. The other day I got to thinking about all those beautiful buildings and the holy purpose that caused them to be built. But you know, in all our travels we never saw one building or even a monument built to honor the devil.
For all our mistakes and mistaken attitudes, at least here we’ve got that right.
Franklin Roosevelt’s closest adviser during much of his presidency was a man named Harry Hopkins. During World War II, when his influence with Roosevelt was at its peak, he held no official Cabinet position. Moreover, Hopkins’s closeness to Roosevelt caused many to regard him as a shadowy, sinister figure. As a result he was a major political liability to the President.
A political foe once asked Roosevelt, “Why do you keep Hopkins so close to you? You surely realize that people distrust him and resent his influence.”
Roosevelt replied, “Someday you may well be sitting here where I am now as President of the United States. And when you are, you’ll be looking at that door over there and knowing that practically everybody who walks through it wants something out of you. You’ll learn what a lonely job this is, and you’ll discover the need for somebody like Harry Hopkins, who asks for nothing except to serve you.”
The question is not who are you, but whose are you?
Have you reached the point in your life where to serve Christ is to ask for nothing else because you have decided that to serve Him is the greatest gift you will ever receive?
I give you yet another Presidential story to emphasize that those in this powerful office so often realize they need something more than their own faulty intellect.
President Ronald Reagan once said, “Within the covers of one single book, the Bible, are all the answers to all the problems that face us today—if only we would read and believe.
I close with the questions I began these thoughts with: Who are you? Whose are you?
You tell on yourself by the friends you seek,
By the very manner in which you speak,
By the way you employ your leisure time,
By the use you make of dollar and dime.
By the very manner in which you speak,
By the way you employ your leisure time,
By the use you make of dollar and dime.
You tell what you are by the things you wear,
By the spirit in which your burdens bear,
By the kind of things at which you laugh,
By the records you play on the phonograph.
By the spirit in which your burdens bear,
By the kind of things at which you laugh,
By the records you play on the phonograph.
You tell what you are by the way you walk,
By the things of which you delight to talk,
By the manner in which you bear defeat,
By so simple a thing as how you eat.
By the things of which you delight to talk,
By the manner in which you bear defeat,
By so simple a thing as how you eat.
By the books you choose from the well-filled shelf:
In these ways and more, you tell on yourself;
So there's really no particle of sense
In an effort to keep up false pretense.
In these ways and more, you tell on yourself;
So there's really no particle of sense
In an effort to keep up false pretense.
So yes, you tell on yourself by how often you pray
For it is then you show me how well you know the way.
—The Lighted Pathway (with the last two closing lines my own)
. Who are you? Whose are you?
It is said of the 17th century French priest Fenelon that his communion with God was such that his face shone.
Lord Peterborough, a skeptic, was once compelled to spend a night with him at an inn. In the morning he hurried away saying, “If I spend another night with that man, I shall be a Christian in spite of myself.”
When an atheist or agnostic spends some extra time with you, what kind of influence do you exert? Because of you, will they become a Christian in spite of themselves?
And no matter what kind of influence the world tries to exert over you; discredit you, disown you, disregard you, discount you, disturb you, disrupt you, disagree with you, disgust you, disdain you… as long as you don’t let them discourage you and distract you from understanding who you are - a creation of the loving Almighty God, then you will personally have answered the question, Whose am I? “I am God’s!” (paraphrase of thought from anonymous author)
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