"IS HE LIKE BILL?"
March 13, 2011
“Bill was a drunk, converted at a city mission. Before his conversion he had gained a reputation as a tramp and alcoholic for whom there was no hope. But when he was converted everything changed. He became the most caring person at the mission. He spent all his days there doing whatever needed to be done. There was never anything he was asked to do that he considered beneath him. Whether it was cleaning up vomit left by some alcoholic or scrubbing toilets used by men who left them filthy, Bill did it all with a heart of gratitude. He could be counted on to feed any man who wandered in off the streets and care for his needs when he was unable to care for himself. One evening after the mission director delivered his evangelistic message to the usual crowd of solemn men with drooped heads, one of them came down to the altar and kneeled to pray, crying out to God to help him change. The repentant drunk kept shouting, "O God make me like Bill! Make me like Bill! Make me like Bill!" The director of the mission leaned over and said, "Wouldn't it be better if you pray, Make me like Jesus?" After thinking about it for a few seconds, the man looked up and asked, "Is he like Bill?"
What a powerful testimony. We are to so live that our very lives magnify the Lord Jesus Christ. People are to see Jesus in us! What are people seeing in us?
Pastor Tommy
Taken from “The Word for Today”
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