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This is a very
nice little story
submitted to Pastor Rich
by John W. Perry
A little boy was spending his
Saturday morning playing in his sand box. He had with him his box
of cars and trucks, his plastic pail, and a shiny, red plastic shovel.
In the process of creating roads and tunnels in the soft sand, he
discovered a large rock in the middle of the sand box!
The boy dug around the rock, managing to dislodge it from the
sand. With no little bit of struggle, he pushed and nudged the
rock across the sandbox by using his feet. (He was a very small
boy and the rock was very huge.) When the boy got the rock to the
edge of the sandbox, however, he found that he couldn't roll it up and
over the little wall. Determined, the little boy shoved, pushed,
and pried, but every time he had made some progress, the rock tipped and
then fell back into the sand box.
The little boy grunted, struggled, pushed, and shoved; but his only
reward was to have the rock roll back, smashing his chubby
fingers. Finally he burst into tears of frustration. All
this time the boy's father watched from his living room window as the
drama unfolded.
The moment the tears fell, a large shadow fell across the boy and the
sandbox. It was the boy's father. Gently but firmly he said,
"Son, why didn't you use all the strength that you had
available?" Defeated, the boy sobbed back, "But I did
Daddy, I did! I used all the strength that I had!"
"No, son," corrected the father kindly, "you didn't use
all the strength you had. You didn't ask me." With that
the father reached down, picked up the rock, and removed it from the
sandbox.
Do you have "rocks" in your life that need to be
removed? Are you discovering that you don't have ALL that it takes
to lift them?
There is One who is always available to us and willing to give us all
the strength we need.
"When you
are DOWN to nothing....
God is UP to something!"
"Faith sees the invisible,
believes the incredible,
and receives the impossible!!"
Have a
great week!
In Jesus'
name, Amen.
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