Dear Reader,
A room-service waiter at a Marriott hotel learned that the sister of a guest had just died. The waiter, named Charles, bought a sympathy card, had hotel staff members sign it, and gave it to the distraught guest with a piece of hot apple pie.
“Mr. Marriott,” the guest later wrote to the president of Marriott Hotels, “I’ll never meet you. And I don’t need to meet you. Because I met Charles. I know what you stand for. I want to assure you that as long as I live, I will stay at your hotels. And I will tell my friends to stay at your hotels.”
And so it is that we should strive to live such lives that people who don’t know our Lord will want to pledge themselves to Him because they have seen the love of Christ emerging from our own lives. The only difference in the above story is that instead of the guest writing, “I don’t need to meet you, because I met Charles,” people should be saying to the Lord Jesus, “I want to meet You, because I have met_________ (your name).”
Oh, to live in such a way.
Because He Lives,
Pastor Grubbs
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