I find this a most interesting piece especially as we strive to be like Jesus. Elder Thompson in teaching the adult Sunday school class on Sunday, July 26, 2009 made the observation that Jesus picked 12 men not for their perfection but for their potential. Do we have eyes that are always looking for the good in others?
I am driven to Homer's Iliad and in particular book III. Here is a verbatim quote "When they stood up in presence of the assembled Trojans, Menelaus was the broader shouldered, but when both were seated Odysseus had the more royal presence. After a time they delivered their message, and the speech of Menelaus ran trippingly on the tongue. He did not say much, for he was a man of few words, but he spoke very clearly and to the point, though he was the younger man of the two. Odysseus, on the other hand, when he rose to speak was at first silent and kept his eyes fixed upon the ground. There was no play nor graceful movement of his scepter; he kept it straight and stiff like a man unpracticed in oratory-one might have taken him for a mere churl or simpleton; but when he raised his voice, and the words came driving from his deep chest like winter snow before the wind, then there was none to touch him, and no man thought further of what he looked like."
Don't be too busy to notice others; you might just miss meeting tomorrow's genius.
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Robert A. Stewart
Beldene wrote:
ReplyDeleteOh yes Elder and fellow labourers, I'm reminded that in every (labelled) bad person, there is good. But the question is "What are the Christians doing to make that good, better and that better, best. Or do we just let it rest.
We are called upon to go into the fields and labour, for they are already white and ready for harvesting. It seems that today people have more potential for preaching, and not for reaching. I may be one of the guilty ones, but I'm only saying more of us need to go out into the fields and bring them in, yes bring them in from the field of sin.
May God help us to use the good eye, to look at the good in others, and ask Jesus to fix the situations so that their good will be better and their better best. Who will help to bring out the genius in anyone who was so created to be? Let us not fear to go out and be reapers, for God is our refuge.
Kirk wrote:
ReplyDeleteRemember David and his brothers.