God's Wife

GOD’S WIFE

The following story was shared with me from my cousin Joyce.

An eye witness account from New York City, on a cold day in December, some years ago, a little boy about ten years old, was standing before a shoe store on the roadway peering through the window and shivering with cold. A lady approached the young lad and said, “My, you seem to be in such thought staring in that window!” “I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes,” was the little boys reply.

The lady took him by the hand, went into the store and asked the clerk to get a half dozen pairs of stockings for the boy. She then asked the clerk if she could have a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her. She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet and dried them with the warm towel. By this time, the store clerk had returned with the socks and she put a pair on the boy’s feet and placed the new bought shoes on his feet. She also tied up the remaining pairs of stockings and gave them to him.

She patted him on the head and said, “No doubt, you will be more comfortable now.” As she turned to leave, the astonished child caught her by the hand and looking up into her face, with tears in his eyes, asked, “Are you God’s wife?”

Of course God doesn’t have a wife! However, this moving story illustrates how important service is to advance God’s kingdom. The true disciple and servant of Jesus Christ is an agent for God. In His limitless grace, God rewards whoever serves someone in need no matter how mundane that need seems to be.

“And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise shall lose his reward” (Matthew 10:42).

The point is that meeting the need of anyone amounts to a service to Him and the reward shall never be lost. The “little ones” could be saved or unsaved, male or female, old or young, rich or poor, a long-time believer or a recent convert stumbling in the faith.
Whenever we become the source of blessing to others, we are blessed; when others become a source of blessing to us, they are blessed. May the love and compassion of Christ fill us and move us to help others. -- Dr. Henry Lutz is a retired Pastor and a frequent contributor to Freedom Fighter

God's WORD for US: Proverbs 15; Amos 1-3; Revelation 6

GREAT QUOTE: “If we will not listen to the poor when they cry out unto us in their need, God will not listen unto us when we cry unto Him in our need.” – R. A. Torrey