I was taking a break
from what would be a couple of hours of yard work today when the doorbell rang.
As I opened the door a middle-aged man stood there, and asked.
“I was wondering. That
lawnmower by the road. Are you throwing it away?”
I immediately
recognized my mistake.
Having mowed one side
of my yard, I had stopped to get a drink of water, and left my almost new $300
mower by the street, next to the garbage bin and yard clippings, and ready for
pickup.
“Oh no. I’m sorry,” I
replied. “But I can’t blame you for asking.”
The man thanked me,
turned and walked back to the car which he’d parked in front of my house.
It occurred to me that
he might very well have just loaded up the mower and driven away; given the
fact that I had left it next to my garbage bin and yard trash.
I think God is a lot
like that.
While many might think
there’s not much to be admired about us, or anything worthy of being saved, He
knows our intrinsic worth, and isn’t prepared to just throw us away.
Though men revile us
and say all manner of evil about us, we have a Savior who is in the business of
rescuing people like us from the trash heap of life.
By William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from "(Mc)Donald's Daily Diary" Vol. 7
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