An American paratrooper found himself lost on D-Day. He finally saw a farmhouse at which he stopped, knocked and asked for admission. The woman hurried him in and hid him in a closet.
An SS troop soon arrived, found the American, seized the farmer and ordered them both outside. There they shot the Frenchman dead and put the American in a small shed and bolted the door. After he escaped confinement and efforts by the SS to kill him, he appeared again at the farmhouse door…knocked softly…met by the widow, pale-faced, eyes swimming. “Will you hide me?” he whispered. The very man who caused her troubles at her door again, begging for help again. What would we do? SHE replied, “Yes, be quick.” Turning the story around, we see a parable of Christ’s appeal to Christians. He repeatedly knocks on our door, seeking our:
Even if we’ve said NO before. Even if we’ve said YES, but forgot our promise. Even when we’ve tried our best, and failed. He returns and asks again, in patient persistence, “Will you serve me now?” His return to us is a no-brainer, really. For, however:
Jesus has no one more capable of being his witnesses than those:
Who but those enriched by grace can be witnesses of it to those without it? Who but those filled with the Holy Spirit can explain the formidable nature of his security than those possessing it? Who but those assured of a new body and brain in God’s new world can be confident in giving hope to those so sure to die? Christians, let us rise to our spiritual enfranchisement. If we do not, WHO can? If we don’t NOW, WHEN will we?
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