Sunday, January 27, 2013

HANDS


 

Starting on my other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS on Nov 1...a 3 day series on HOW TO LESSEN ANXIETY.

Click on link below to go to One A Day blog

 


 

A different sermon is begun on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. 

       IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF these comments AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.

       The sermons found on this blog are selected sermons preached by Rev. Wyrick during a ministry of over 50 years.  This syndicated columnist/minister thanks you for visiting.

       To Visit neil's other blog One A Day Your Spiritual Vitamins click on the following  


++++++ (Continuation of Hands)

       As legend tells it, many years ago in a certain church, on a very particular day, all the people were asked to bring great gifts to lay upon the altar.  All had been told that the greatest gift would cause a miracle. That at that moment a heavenly choir would burst forth with song.  And so they came, bringing boxes of gold, silver, jewels, and spices.  All kind of wealth.  A long line of hope and yet nothing happened.  Silence.  Unrelenting silence.

       Then, slowly there came walking down the aisle a peasant girl.  Her tattered clothes hung loose.  Her pale fingers almost luminescent as she moved toward the towering piles of magnificent offerings.  Kneeling, she reached forward and put down…. her hands. . . and left them there.  For a long time she moved them not, offering them to God.

        They were all she had, and she gave them.  Then softly, at first no louder than a whisper, came the sound of a celestial chorus, building to a crescendo.  The very walls reverberated with angel voices of acclamation.  For yes, her gift was the greatest, the most wondrous; the gift of self.

       Someone once wrote, “God takes a hand wherever He can find it.  Here, the hand of a mother to guide her child; there, the hand of a neighbor to be a friend.  The hands of those who believe.” 

           Why such emphasis on service?  Because service is the rent we pay for the space we occupy.

No comments: