• Lost At The Corner

  Contributed by Merv Budd on May 10, 2011 (message contributor)

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  Tags:  Trials And Difficulties

  Denomination: Baptist

LOST AT THE CORNER

At a 1999 conference in Houston, speaker Marti Ensign, a missionary to Africa, told of bringing some African pastors to the United States for a big meeting. During their free time, these Africans wanted to go shopping. Even though they were in a small town, Marti knew there was a chance someone might have difficulty or get lost. So she gave them her phone number for such an emergency. In less than an hour the phone rang and the African said, "I am lost."

Marti said, "Lay the phone down, go to the street corner, find out the names of the two streets at the corner, come back and tell me, and I will come and get you." In a few minutes he returned to the phone and reported, "I am at the corner of 'Walk' and 'Don't Walk.'"

Sometimes that is how life can feel doesn’t it? We’re lost at the corner of walk and don’t walk.