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Today In Sunday School The Teacher Told Us A ...
Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jul 13, 2001 (message contributor)
Today in Sunday School the teacher told us a story about Gaylord and his old dog that wouldn’t bite anybody. Seems that the dog liked to run alongside when Gaylord rode his bike. Gaylord either did not have a chain guard on the bike or this was in the days when they did not use them. Anyway, one day the old dog was along side Gaylord and his tail just wagged a little too close and ended up between the chain and the sprocket. To say the dog was in pain is an understatement and he commenced to bite on that old bike, but could not free himself. When Gaylord tried to help the old dog in his pain commenced to bitin’ on Gaylord. Eventually, between all that biting Gaylord got the old dog loose, but he lost a portion of his tail in the process.
I got to thinkin’ about that and it came to me that that is exactly how we are when we are in painful situations. We sometimes get there by accident and we try to bite our way out of it all we can and the pain remains. When God shows up instead of seeing Him as the friend He has always been we start biting on Him and get in the way of His help. By the time we either give up and let Him work or He breaks through out chompin’ we end up losin’ a part of our tail that we might not have lost had we just backed off and let Him end the painful situation for us. The old dog started out biting on the right thing, but ended up biting the one that loved him and wanted to care for him. Let’s keep our wits even in pain and let the One who loves us and has the knowledge and ability to end the pain do it. It will cost us nothing and save us much loss.
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T.w. Hunt Said In His Book "The Doctrine Of ... PRO
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City Slickers
Contributed by Sam Peters on Mar 1, 2007
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Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jan 7, 2004
Caspar ten Boon In her famous book and film, “The Hiding Place” Corrie ten Boom tells the story of a Dutch Christian family, her family, who had a heart for the Jewish people Her grandfather Wilhelm started a weekly prayer group in 1844 in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam for the ...read more
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Let Me Tell You A Story About A Christian Just ... PRO
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