Wednesday

“Don’t think only about your own affairs,

but be interested in others, too.”

~Philippians 2:4, TLB~


Trisha Wilson thanks you for supporting the Good News Bible Clubs they conducted at the local school.  They have already been approved for next year.  Pray they will be allowed to have more students next year.  She also thanks you for praying for her as she spoke at MOPS.  Her request for this week is for the Easter party she will host at her home for the children in school with her two older children.  So far, she’s expecting to have 22 children Friday.  Pray for good weather so they can go outside but mainly for little hearts to be open to the message of Easter.

Linda Hughes Benfield has been released by her doctor so she is free to drive and even return to work.  Thank God for her good progress.  Thank God for her family who helped take good care of her.

Wanda Cage is now home.  Pray for her as she continues to recover and makes plans for treatment.

Pray for my sister, Carolyn, as she and her daughter fly to visit her other daughter and family tomorrow.  This will be Carolyn’s first flight.  She is very nervous.

CaringBridge

Please take time to read this Baptist Press article.  It gives insight into losing a parent and insight into gaining  a heavenly home while losing earthly family.

http://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?ID=32601

UNDERCOVER BOSS

I don’t know how many of you have watched the TV show “Undercover Boss”, but it is one that intrigues me.  The show features a CEO of any given company who decides to go undercover and work as one of his men on the front lines.  The purpose is to find out what problems there are and what the CEO can do to make it better.  Now to some extent, this show seems a bit staged to me as the workers are almost always more than thrilled to be working for the company and they have unique, difficult situations that they open up about to this “stranger” filming a documentary, whether it be about dialysis or losing their home to a flood. But that aside, it is interesting to watch the reactions of people at the end of the show when they learn that the man that they serve, that they’ve never met, has spent the day working beside them.  And everything they did and said was being observed by the man who pays their salary.

More often than not, the CEO is touched by how hard his employees work and they are rewarded.  Some are rewarded with bigger job opportunities within the company.  Some are given raises, some sent to school, some have foundations set up in their name.  It reminds me so much of the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25.  The show for me, makes that passage come alive.  I think a lot about God revealing himself to us at the end of our time and saying, “I was with you.  I was watching you work and heard what you said.  I was impressed with your work ethic.  You work very hard.  I know it hasn’t been easy, but I’m going to make things better for you now.  You do an excellent job where you are at, but I would like you to take on more responsibility.”

This show is helpful in getting me to understand that passage.  I’m afraid too often that I relate far too easily with the steward with one talent.  I hope that God finds me neither afraid or lazy, but can warmly greet me in his “office” and say “Well done good and faithful servant!”

Charity Thomas
Johnson City, TN

(Charity Thomas is the daughter of Alan Smith who usually writes this devotional.)

Share the message of Easter this week.

Anna Lee

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