Friday, March 28, 2003
Friday, March 28, 2003
"For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you."
During the previous term the pre-med student had been very ill with the flu and, as a result, had
missed ten days of school. "Without any fanfare or complaints," his Christian classmate
carefully collected all his class assignments and took time away from his own studies to help
him catch up.
The pre-med student told Palmer, "You know, this kind of thing just isn't done. I wanted to know
what made this guy act the way he did. I even found myself asking if I could go to church with
him."
A small act of love, but a friend saw Jesus there. And so you and I are confronted with a
question: Can others see Christ in us? If we were the only Jesus people ever met, would it be
enough to "tip the scales."
(John 13.15
NRSV)
Earl Palmer, in a fine little book entitled THE ENORMOUS EXCEPTION, tells the story of a pre-
med student at the University of California, Berkeley "who became a Christian after a long
journey through doubts and questions." When Palmer asked the young man why he had chosen
Jesus Christ, he answered that what had "tipped the scales" in his spiritual journey were the
actions of a Christian classmate.
Lord Jesus, with your help, I will be able to let others see you and most certainly "tip the scales."
Amen.
