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Spilt Water
Hurricane
Katrina Relief Effort
- Mobile, AL
Consider
this story told by Bernard L. Brown, Jr., President of
the Kennestone Regional Health Care System in the
state of
Georgia:
Brown
once worked in a hospital where a patient knocked over
a cup of water, which spilled on the floor beside the
patient’s bed. The patient was afraid he might slip
on
the water if he got out of the bed, so he asked a
nurse’s aide to mop it up. The patient didn’t know
it, but the hospital policy said that small spills
were the responsibility of the nurse’s aides while
large spills were to be mopped up by the hospital’s
housekeeping group.
The
nurse’s aide decided the spill was a large one and
she called the housekeeping department. A housekeeper
arrived and declared the spill a small one. An
argument followed. “It’s not MY
responsibility,” said the nurse’s aide,
“because it’s a LARGE puddle.” The
housekeeper did not agree. “Well, it’s not
MINE,” she said, “the puddle
is too SMALL.”
The
exasperated patient listened for a time, then took a
pitcher of water from his night table and poured the
whole thing on the floor. “Is THAT a big
enough puddle NOW for you two to decide?”
he asked. It was, and that was the end of the
argument. *
Speaking
of spills, YOU and I often make messes of our lives
due to SIN.
Sin stains our souls terribly; we need
cleansing. The
“puddle” is so big, that we cannot clean it
up ourselves.
Many
try to assign blame to someone or something else.
The "blame game" is as
old as man himself (Read Genesis 3).
“I’m not responsible.
It’s my parents fault,” we say.
Or, “I’m a product of my environment”
is an excuse that we often give.
“It’s not my responsibility.”
WHO
is responsible for the mess I make with my life??
Honesty requires me to answer, ”
I AM.”
The same goes for the messes you make in your
life.
But,
there is GOOD NEWS!
Cleansing is available!
Even though He didn’t have to, God said,
“I’ll clean it up.”
In fact, He is the only One who could!
He gave His only begotten Son to die for our
sins, so that we may have forgiveness.
And He will forgive those who believe
in Jesus (Acts 16:31), repent
of their sins (Acts 17:30-31), confess
Jesus (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized
(immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38).
He will continue to cleanse those who continue
to follow Him (1 John 1:7).
He
WILL clean up the mess that you have made IF you will
allow Him to. The
choice is yours!
Won’t
YOU allow Him to make you
clean through your trusting obedience?
God bless you!
David
A. Sargent, Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
* Bits & Pieces,
September 16, 1993, pp. 22-24
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