Charles Colson said…
Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get. The lure of power can separate the most resolute of Christians from the true nature of Christian leadership, which is service to others. It’s difficult to stand on a pedestal and wash the feet of those below. — Charles Colson in Kingdoms in Conflict, p. 274.
True.
As we celebrated Fathers’ Day, most of us took a moment to recall our fathers. My father was like many – he had lots of good character qualities. And he had some areas of his life where he could have improved. Patience was not one of his strengths. That’s probably why I never became a fisherman. But one of the strengths my father had was that he was a good man.
Some time ago that phrase, “he’s a good man” entered my daughter’s vocabulary. She would talk about professors at college and say, “Dad – you’d really like him. He’s a good man.” One day she was talking about Jim Bell and she said, “He’s a good man.” Then it happened….
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Have you ever heard old comics do the routine where one says something like this:
When I was young, we were so poor that five of us had to sleep in one bed.
You had a bed? When I was young, we were so poor that we couldn’t afford a bed. Each of us had to sleep on the floor and cover up with newspapers.
You had newspapers? When I was young, we were so poor that no one could afford a newspaper. We had to eavesdrop on our neighbors to get the news!
You had neighbors? When I was young, we were so poor that we couldn’t afford neighbors!
If anyone could win at that little contest, it would be John the Baptist. He knew what it was to suffer.
How did he handle it? What help does the Bible give us with our own?
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