Re: [TruthTalk] who says there's no free lunch

[Lance Muir]

The meaning of 'orthopraxy' is to be found in this post.   Thus saith little old me!   Lance ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Sent: January 30, 2005 14:46 Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] who says there's no free lunch In a message dated 1/30/2005 10:56:46 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brother, sometimes you just make me smile with delight! Your story: real/made up?   Lance Very real.   I came out of the book store, saw the guy looking into his engine compartment, said "hi" "and "how things goin'" and almost got to my truck/trailer rig before his words "not so good" got to me.  The Lord had just given me a hugh kitchen  --  I was stuck.   No choice.   Just between you and me.   So a fuel pump and master brake cylinder later, he was on his way.   Do you have any idea how many walked past this black-man-with-a-35-year-old-truck-obviously-broke-and -never-going-to-rise-to-the-ranks-of-midle-class ??? He was there, in front of a Christian bookstore, of all places, for nearly an hour and a half with no offers of any kind. IN FRONT OF A CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE.    With me, it started with a gift of $60..00 bucks ......  all the cash I had on me at the time.  By the time I got to my truck (the second visit of the morning),  I was telling myself  "What good is $60.00 bucks going to do in view of what has to be done?"   He had shown me a repair estimate from a garage in the same parking lot. So I took him to the garage , paid them, and then the Lord said  "ye have done what is required, go thy wayeth and sin not moreth"  (yes, he still doeth speaketh King Jamesth !!) Again, just between you and me.   One of my favorite phrases from Paul is one in which he says,  "I am contrained by love  ......"   When someone does something good for you and it is received as a gift,  there is a sense on the part of those who really care, that they are then indebted.   That is the way I feel about the sacrifice of Christ on my behalf.   Received freely, on my part, accompanied by that subtle and "still small voice"  that speaks these words more than occasionally, "  'I got ya  !!!'  -------   [signed] 'God ' " As far as making you smile  -   I am just returning the favor  !  John