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Come with me to a third grade classroom.
There is a
nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a
sudden, there is
a
puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are
wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot
possibly imagine how
this has
happened.
It's never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out
he
will never hear the end of it. When the girls find
out, they'll never
speak to him again as long as he lives.
The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his head down and prays
this prayer, "Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help
now!
Five minutes from now I'm dead meat."
He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with
a look in her eyes that says he has been
discovered.
As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is
carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled
with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher
and inexplicably
dumps
the bowl of water in the boy's lap.
The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to
himself, "Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!"
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the
boy is the object of sympathy. The
teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym
shorts to put on
while
his pants dry out. All the other
children are on their hands and knees cleaning
up around his desk.
The
sympathy is wonderful. But as
life would have it, the ridicule that should
have been his has been
transferred to someone else - Susie.
She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. "You've done
enough, you klutz!"
Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the
bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers,
"You did that on
purpose,
didn't you?" Susie whispers back, "I wet my pants once
too."
May God help us see the opportunities that are always around us to
do good.
Remember.....Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian
any more than standing in your garage makes you
a car.
Each and everyone one of us is going through tough times right
now, but God is getting ready to bless you in a
way that only He
can.
Keep the faith.
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