Monday, January 7, 2002
Monday, January 7, 2002
But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost, but among
those who have faith and so are saved.
"During the night dogs had begun to bark furiously around the home of a local couple.
Usually the dogs' barking signaled something amiss, that perhaps prowlers lurked
nearby. But the next morning, the couple discovered that nothing had been taken.
Instead, something had been returned. Outside the front door were two car speakers
that had been stolen six weeks earlier. A note attached to them read like this: `I'm
sorry that I took your speakers, but now I have repented my sins and asked Jesus to
forgive me. I hope you will forgive me too. I no longer take other people's
belongings...God has changed me. I'm a new creature since I asked Jesus into my
heart.' It was signed simply, 'Saved.'"
(Hebrews 10.39
NRSV)
Sue Monk Kidd, in her book, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE, says that so often when
she opens a newspaper she finds herself reading a depressing headline--words in big
letters shouting about a world threat, a crisis, another crime. There is surely a lot of bad
news to read about these days. One day she opened her town's paper, however, and
read a remarkable headline printed in half-inch letters. The headline read like this: "I
Asked Jesus Into My Heart." This story followed:
Dear Jesus, thank you for saving me and paying the price for my sins. I am a new
creation created to bring good news. Amen.
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