Daily Word and Insight

I remembered the first time I met Wayne.  He was 9 years old, but his attitude and speech far exceeds that of a child. He was very authoritative, giving command and instructions to his peers who failed to realize that they were of the same age group, so they asked no questions but to follow his advise. He taught many of them how to ride a bicycle. When he was among adults, it was not strange to hear him giving his thoughts on  political matters. He had an uncanny ability to fix his mother's appliances when they broke. His dream was to become a Scientist:  But this was not to be.  His mother and father took him to an open air service I had in my community.  At the end of the service, his mother led him to the altar.  He was just a child, yet he was suffering from cancer in the right ear.  Wayne stood tall as we prayed for him.  That was the beginning of a relationship between us as I constantly visited him from that night on. Thank God with constant prayer, encouragement and with

A four-year-old child was asking her father about God. "Daddy, God made the heavens and earth, didn't He?' "Yes, my dear." "Then, He made the flower in that flower pot, didn't He?" "Yes!" "Well, that means He got His hands dirty."  Yes. God was willing to get His hands dirty to be a friend of sinners.  It seems logical to say that holiness and perfection might shun impurity and imperfection, but not so to Christ.  In biblical times, sinners were somewhat outcasts of the prevailing religious culture.  They were shunned, sometimes exploited for gain. There was no place for them at the tables of the rich and pious.  They had few friends other than those of their kind.  Jesus came to save sinners, and even today there are only two kinds of persons: sinners and sinners saved by the grace of a good, loving, and redeeming Saviour.  He shuns them not.  He wants to make them whole.  That is His mission. Remember, Jesus is your forever Fr