Wednesday, November 6, 2013 Good morning, Read: 1Timothy 4:14 UNIQUELY GIFTED TO HELP “Do not neglect the gift which is in you, [that special inward endowment}” . . . —1 Timothy 4:14 Helen Keller achieved amazing goals despite being unable to see or hear. At 19 months of age, an illness caused her to go completely blind and completely deaf. Helens parents sought help for her in Boston at Perkins School for the Blind. The Perkins School assigned a tutor named Anne Sullivan to work with the child. Helen was terribly frustrated and often became resistant and violently angry. Many teachers would have lost their patience, but Anne Sullivan kept her composure and persisted in her efforts to teach Helen. Eventually, Helen learned to read Braille, to write, and even to speak. Helen also decided she wanted to attend college. Anne Sullivan helped her prepare and gain acceptance to Radcliffe College, associated with Harvard University. With Sullivans help, she graduated with honours, having mastered several languages, four years later. While in college, Helen started a writing career that would last more than 50 years. She went on to receive many awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A vital key to her success was the fact that Anne Sullivan believed in her. Her patience, wisdom, and teaching ability combined to make her a uniquely gifted teacher for Helen. God has uniquely gifted you to help someone. Be available as God opens doors for you to do so. Prayer: Lord, I thank you for the gifts which you have specially endowed me with. May I use them to the best of my abilities to the glory of your name and to bless the world, Amen. (From ‘The Voice of Christ Today, 2013 Edition’ Page 335, A publication of The World International Sacred Peace Movement, Grouped Soul) Good evening, THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT--LOVE! But now abideth Faith, Hope, Love, these three, and the greatest of these is Love.-- 1Co_13:13. LET US lay the emphasis on the word fruit, as contrasted with the works of the law. In work there is effort, strain, the sweat of the brow, and straining of the muscles; but fruit comes easily and naturally by the overflow of the sap rising from the root to bough and bud. So our Christian life should be the exuberance of the heart in which Christ dwells. The Apostle Paul prayed that Christ might dwell in the heart of his converts, that they might be rooted and grounded in love. It is only when the Holy Spirit fills us to the overflow that we shall abound in love to all men. We must distinguish between love and the emotion of love. The former is always possible, though not always and immediately the latter. Our Lord repeating the ancient words of the Pentateuch, taught us that we may love God with our mind and strength, as well as with our hearts. We all know that the mind and strength are governed not by our emotions, but by our wills. We can love, therefore, by determining to put our thought and energies at the service of another for the sake of God; and we shall find our emotions kindle into a sacred glow of conscious affection. In the chapter from which our text is taken, St. Paul distinguishes between the Gifts of the Church and Love. After passing them in review he comes to the conclusion that all of them, without Love as their heart and inspiration, are worth nothing. The greatest word in the world is the unfathomable phrase, God is Love. You can no more define the essence of love than you can define the essence of God, but you can describe its effects and fruits. I give Dr. Weymouths translation: Love is patient and kind, knows neither envy nor jealousy; is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited. She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs. She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth. She knows how to be silent; she is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance. We ought to take each of these clauses, and ponder whether our lives are realizing these high ideals. God send us a baptism of such love! PRAYER: O Lord, my love is like some feebly glimmering spark; I would that it were as a hot flame. Kindle it by the breath of Thy Holy Spirit, till Thy love constraineth me. AMEN. PEACE ON EARTH! (From ‘Our Daily Walk’ by F.B. Meyer, Wednesday, November 6, 2013)
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