Come with me to a third grade classroom..... There is a
nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle
between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is
going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It's
never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out he
will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they'll never speak
to him again as long as he lives.
The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his head down
and prays this prayer, "Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now!
Five minutes from now I'm dead meat."
He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher w ith a look
in her eyes that says he has been discovered.
As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is
carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of
the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy's lap. The
boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, "Thank
you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!"
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the
boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives
him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are
on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is
wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have
been his has been transferred to someone else - Susie.
She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. "You've done
enough, you klutz!"
Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus,
the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, "You did that on purpose, didn't
you?"
Susie whispers back, "I wet my pants once too."
May God help us see the opportunities that are always around us to
do good.
Remember.....Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any
more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
Each and everyone one of us is going through tough times right now,
but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that only He can. Keep the
faith.
