Wednesday, November 12, 2003

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.
(Psalm 52.8 NRSV)
Every great act of self-giving love I know of was, first of all, inspired by love for God. It was love for God that drove Albert Schweitzer into the jungles of Africa. Schweitzer was a man of dazzling intellect and enormous accomplishments. But he wrote a book entitled THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS. The research for that book brought him face to face with the claims of God upon his life.

When it was finished, he gave up all his academic degrees and distinguished posts and went to Africa to serve as a missionary physician. For he read Jesus' story of the rich man and Lazarus and it touched his heart. So when his patients awakened from the anesthetic in that little hospital in Lambarene the first words they heard were the old doctor's, "The reason you have no more pain is because the Lord Jesus told me to come to the banks of the Ogowe." Would you say that was love for God or love for neighbor? They cannot be split. The two are one.

Dear God, thank you for your love. Fill me with your love, as I work to help and serve your people. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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