Have you had your JOY JUICE today? The Father offers it to you personally. Just take it from His loving hands.
In his book
God Loves You, David Jeremiah tells the story of a quiet and
lonely man, William Dixon. "He had lost his wife and son, so had no
family to call his own. One day his
neighbor’s home caught fire. Dixon
and others ran to help. They pulled an
elderly lady from the flames. As she
gasped for air, she told them that her little grandson was trapped upstairs.
At that point the people groaned
because the stairway was impassable. But
William Dixon found an iron drainage pipe running up the wall. Taking hold of it, he pulled himself upward
and found the terrified boy. He scooped
up the child and scrambled back to the ground.
A few days later, the grandmother
died from her injuries, leaving the little boy an orphan. The village people met to determine his
fate. Two volunteers came forward. The first good citizen told why he would be
the best choice because of the good home he could provide. The second volunteer was William Dixon, the
rescuer. He said few words, but his
bandaged hands spoke for him. The hot
iron pipe he had climbed to save the boy had burned his hands severely.
When it came to a vote, the man with
the scarred hands went home with the orphan boy. His love, everyone agreed, was written in
his hands."
David
Jeremiah explains: “The love of our Lord
was also written on His hands—the two hands stretched out and nailed to the
cross, where they flowed with blood that indelibly wrote His love for us for
all eternity.”
Find joy by taking hold of the
nail- scarred hands.
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