A bad man walked into church the other Sunday
morning. His story made me think quite a bit. His story made me
think about how God makes use of different ones.
There is a story about a woman, who in her rush,
found she had left her car keys in the switch and then locked the car doors.
She had to get home. Her child was in need of some medicine that she stopped
to pick up. She didn't know what to do, so she said one of
those, "Dear God, please help me" prayers. About that minute a rough
looking fellow pulled up on a motor bike. He said something to
her. She told him her problem. He reached in his saddle
bag, and pulled out a piece of wire, and walked to the car door. In about a
minute he had the door open. She hugged him and said thanks, and what
a nice man he was. He told her he had just got out of prison for
stealing cars. He was not a nice person. She looked up and said "Oh
Thank You God, you sent me a professional."
This man that walked into church, and when he told
his story, it was a sermon. He too has been down the road, and on the
wrong side of the road, but God has a use for him. He told of his
child hood, he had some church time, but he found other pass times,
that well he enjoyed maybe. He got to walking on the other side of the
road, and getting off the road, down in the ditches which lead to a more
traveled road so many seems to like. He took to the bottle, he took to
the wild side, and the wild side leads to infractions of the laws. Both man
laws, and the laws of God. He did something to make him a bad man, and made
a short trip up the river so to speak.
When he had served his time he met some of the old
buddies, and took up with his old friend the bottle again, but something
happened. He met a woman he thought was, well she became wife, and she
started talking church. One day he went with her. When he walked
out, he found old friend the bottle, and pored the stuff down the drain,
hasn't touched a drop since. He has been since that day walking along the
right side of the road, with the woman he loves. He found two things.
God and a good woman.
When the bad man set down, he had done a better
sermon as I have heard in a long time. It put me to thinking.
I believe just about everyone has served some time
as a bad man or woman. That is all but the goody two shoes. You
know the ones that look down their long nose at the rest of us sinners.. My
Bible does say all have sinned and falling short, way short that is.
Bill Walker
