Friday, November 8, 2002
Friday, November 8, 2002
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in
order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,
May we never give up our dreams, especially in serving our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
(1
Peter 3.18
NRSV)
In one of his books Norman Vincent Peale tells about a
ragged newsboy years ago in Chicago who had determination. This young fellow used to
huddle on a sidewalk
grating near the Chicago TRIBUNE building because the flow of
heat from the presses operating in the basement kept him warm.
From that vantage point, the boy could see well-dressed men and
women going into a theater across the street where brilliant
lights on the marquee spelled out the evening's attraction. He
decided one cold night that someday he would be that attraction
himself, and to record the birth of this impossible dream he took
a rusty nail and scratched his name and the date on the concrete
windowsill behind the grating. The years passed, and the dream
did not die, and the day came when the ragged newsboy, now
attired in white tie and tails, held the crowds that came to the
theater spellbound with the most astounding array of magical
tricks the stage had ever seen. He was Howard Thurston, the great
magician, and sometimes he would take his friends and show them
the name and date dimly scratched on the concrete windowsill so
many years before.
Lord Jesus, thank you for never giving up on your dream of saving all of God's people. Amen.
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