Saturday, May 25, 2002
Saturday, May 25, 2002
It shall be said, "Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction
from my people's way."
There was one regular customer who was a professor from the old Soviet Union. The
professor noticed how happy the shoeshine man was. He watched the man shining his shoes
so cheerfully and enthusiastically, and he couldn't figure out what made him so happy in such
a miserable world. One day the professor could no longer hold his curiosity, and asked the
shoeshine man, "Why are you always so happy?"
This surprised the shoeshine man. He paused for a moment, scratched his head thoughtfully,
and then said, "Jesus. He loves me. He died so God could forgive my badness. He makes
me happy."
This wasn't an answer that the professor had expected to hear, and he went back to his
newspaper without another word. But it was those few simple words spoken by the shoeshine
man that eventually brought the professor to Jesus Christ.
(Isaiah 57.14
NRSV)
A man on a busy street polished his customers' shoes with great enthusiasm. It was evident
that he enjoyed his work --turning a pair of scruffy leather shoes into a shining work of art. He
also enjoyed talking with the men whose shoes he polished; he even enjoyed polishing the
shoes of men who buried their noses in the morning newspaper.
Dear God, may your joy shine through me, so that others may know of your love. Amen.
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