"Playground Angel"
Scripture Reading:
John 15:13 (HCSB) No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13 (HCSB) No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.
Devotional Reading:
While sitting in the playground, a wife began talking with another young woman about her husband's health crisis and asked her if she’d pray for them to be able to find a kidney donor. She responded by saying that she and her husband had been out of town the weekend when their pastor announced the need, but if they had known, they would have stepped forward like the others did. She said told that they should ask her husband to consider it right away. It turned out that he was right inside the church building, having gotten off work in time
that day to come by while one of their sons was rehearsing for the kids’ worship service. The woman's immediate, generous response flooded the wife's soul with a sense of God’s love at work there on the playground. When her husband came out a few minutes later, he also responded to the wife's request right away, saying that he’d definitely be willing to start the kidney donor process -- even before he ever met her husband -- because he sensed God calling him right there on the playground to help.
The great love the young couple showed to them could only have been God’s love working through them. There’s no other way to explain why two people would want to do something so significant to help someone they hadn’t really know before. The Transplant center tests revealed that he was a match, and the transplant was completely successful. The husband
was like an angel to them because God’s love worked powerfully through him. Empowered by that love, one man sacrificed a part of his own body to give another family a gift that
they could never repay: a kidney that saved his life. Why would someone give such a wonderful gift? The husband said it was because he was full of gratitude for what God had done for him in his own life. His gratitude for God’s grace motivated him to develop a lifestyle of giving, opening his heart regularly to God’s love so it could flow through him to others.
So when he encountered God’s call to give an extraordinary gift, he was able to respond faithfully and powerfully, just like angels do. What a hero. I would like to take a moment and recognize one of my own personal heroes; my wife who a year ago today selflessly gave her kidney to help a friend. Also, another special lady from my church who answered the same call and 6 months later gave her kidney to a man she had never met before. Way to go ladies... you both rule and rank up top on my list of heroes. It is both an honor and privilege to know you both!
Keep the Son in your eyes,
that day to come by while one of their sons was rehearsing for the kids’ worship service. The woman's immediate, generous response flooded the wife's soul with a sense of God’s love at work there on the playground. When her husband came out a few minutes later, he also responded to the wife's request right away, saying that he’d definitely be willing to start the kidney donor process -- even before he ever met her husband -- because he sensed God calling him right there on the playground to help.
The great love the young couple showed to them could only have been God’s love working through them. There’s no other way to explain why two people would want to do something so significant to help someone they hadn’t really know before. The Transplant center tests revealed that he was a match, and the transplant was completely successful. The husband
was like an angel to them because God’s love worked powerfully through him. Empowered by that love, one man sacrificed a part of his own body to give another family a gift that
they could never repay: a kidney that saved his life. Why would someone give such a wonderful gift? The husband said it was because he was full of gratitude for what God had done for him in his own life. His gratitude for God’s grace motivated him to develop a lifestyle of giving, opening his heart regularly to God’s love so it could flow through him to others.
So when he encountered God’s call to give an extraordinary gift, he was able to respond faithfully and powerfully, just like angels do. What a hero. I would like to take a moment and recognize one of my own personal heroes; my wife who a year ago today selflessly gave her kidney to help a friend. Also, another special lady from my church who answered the same call and 6 months later gave her kidney to a man she had never met before. Way to go ladies... you both rule and rank up top on my list of heroes. It is both an honor and privilege to know you both!
Keep the Son in your eyes,
Pastor Ben J Lahay
Galatians 2:20
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