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« on: March 19, 2009, 10:01:17 PM » |
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For those of you that have been diligent in your attempts to keep up with out thought of the week I apologize as I have not put a new one up in a number of weeks. Prayerfully we should be back on track now and I will be putting a new one up every week now. Seeing how this week is almost over I am going to leave this one up all next week to and then I will have a new thought on the following Monday. With that being said here is the new thought for the week...
This weeks thought for the week comes from the Our Daily Bread Daily Devotional.
Jason Ray was a ray of joy on the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill. He performed as Rameses (the school mascot) for 3 years, hauling his giant Ram's head costume to sporting events one day and children’s hospitals the next. Then, in March 2007, while with his team for a basketball tournament, Jason was struck by a car. His family watched and waited at the hospital, but the 21-year-old succumbed to his injuries and died.
His story doesn’t end there, however. Jason had filed paperwork two years earlier to donate organs and tissue upon his death—and that act of concern saved the lives of four people and helped dozens of others. A young man in the prime of his life, with everything to live for, was concerned for the well-being of others and acted on that concern. Those individuals who were helped, as well as their families, are deeply grateful for this young man who thought of others.
Jason’s act echoes the heart of Paul’s words in Philippians 2, as he called believers to look beyond themselves and their own interests, and to look to the interests of others. A heart that turns outward to others will be a healthy heart indeed. — Bill Crowder
Love thyself last. Look near, behold thy duty
To those who walk beside thee down life’s road.
Make glad their days by little acts of beauty
And help them bear the burden of earth’s load. —Wilcox
Looking to the needs of others honors Christ.
In what ways is God leading you to look to the needs of others in order that He might be honored? How willing are you to put aside self in order to be a servant to all?
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