May 22, 2025 - I remember once reading a story of a man who owned and operated a small, independent grocery store. He was telling a friend in the store one day that the preacher had delivered a really good sermon the previous Sunday.
Well, the friend asked the title of the sermon, but the grocery man couldn’t remember. He then asked him what text the preacher had chosen for the sermon. He had to confess that he had forgotten that also. At this point, the friend was giving him one of those smirking smiles and thinking to himself that it must not have been much of a sermon after all.
Yet, the man wasn’t finished. He said, “You know, after the sermon, I came to the store and got rid of my short-weight scales, and then I went to the magazine rack and pulled all the magazines that were suggestive or vulgar or would have a bad influence on someone. You see, that’s shy the sermon was so wonderful to me.”
When you think about it, any lesson that move people to live on a higher plane is a wonderful lesson. It doesn’t matter if you remember the title of the sermon or the text it came from. It only matters that it helps you in some way come closer to living your life within the will of God. That ought to be the desire of every child of God, to live our lives on the “Higher Ground” where the Lord wants us to live.
It’s something to think about... tbp
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