I read some time back (I don’t recall the source), that an accomplished organist was giving a concert. (In those days someone had to pump large bellows backstage to provide air for the pipes.) After each song, the audience applauded heartily. Before his final number, the organist stood and said, "I shall now play . . ." and he announced the title. He sat down and adjusted his music. With feet poised over the pedals and hands over the keys, he began with a mighty chord. But the organ remained silent. Just then a voice was heard from backstage: "Say 'We'.

In the Lord's work, there is plenty of room for personal achievement. Our abilities are God-given, and the Holy Spirit helps us to excel in what we do best. But a self-sufficient spirit that overlooks the contributions of others can ruin it all. No Christians have ever climbed the ladder of success alone. With them were mothers, fathers, friends, a husband, a wife, or children who prayed, sacrificed, and did what they could to help.

My last aunt passed away on March 16, 2005.  She, and her husband, my uncle; I will always remember.  On many occasion these two “were the voice backstage” who provided guidance – prayed for and encouraged me.  I will always remember how she welcomed my wife too be, and I into her home for our wedding almost 57 years ago.  My uncle (I don’t have permission to use their names),  a Church of God Minister, gave us sound advice, then and a number of other times.  I will never forget the contribution they made  to my life.

Did you see the news on TV about a car accident in Turkey where a vehicle had run off a winding, cliff side road, through a guardrail and into the ocean. Two people in the car were able to get out, but a third, a woman, was trapped in the vehicle, now upside down but visible in the crystal clear water.  A crowd began to gather and people rushed to assist the survivors, bringing them blankets and consoling them. Others – young men – began diving off the rocks down to the car to try to free the trapped person.

Then, out of nowhere, an old man suddenly zoomed through the crowd in an old beat-up pick-up truck, almost running into the people gathered at the edge of the cliff. He climbed out and pointed to a winch on the front of his truck and some of the younger men grabbed the hook and began pulling out cable – then they dove in, wrapped the cable around the top of the car, and it slowly began to roll over in the water – and the woman was freed. Amazingly, the report said the woman was underwater for over 20 minutes, but she survived.

My point here is that people knew the woman was trapped in the car and dying. They CAME and they CARED, some risking their own lives to try to save her and others comforting her family. But no one had the POWER to do anything about the situation until the old farmer came with the winch – the winch that had the POWER to actually do something about the situation – and she was rescued…saved.

"Make you the world a bit more beautiful and better because you have been on it."  Love you,

   ><))):>  In "HIS" Service  
                 Bro. Roy