A pastor was asked to speak for a certain charitable organization. After the meeting the program chairman handed the pastor a check.
“Oh, I couldn’t take this,” the pastor said with some embarrassment. “I appreciate the honor of being asked to speak. You have better uses for this money. You apply it to one of those uses.”
The program chairman asked, “Well, do you mind if we put it into our special fund?”
The pastor replied, “Of course not. What is the special fund for?”
The chairman answered, “It’s so we can get a better speaker next year.”
Have you noticed? Life is full of humbling experiences.
A humbler man never lived than Jesus of Nazareth. That is the essence of the Good News for the day. On the one hand, we see that no greater man ever lived than he. He was the very Word of Go…