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A Truck Driver’s Hands

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October 28, 2020 8:00 pm

A Truck Driver’s Hands

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October 28, 2020 8:00 pm

Lucy Worsley is a British historian and TV presenter. Like most people in the public eye, she sometimes receives nasty mail—in her case, over a mild speech impediment that makes her R’s sound like W’s. One person wrote this: “Lucy, I’ll be blunt: Please try harder to correct your lazy speech or remove R’s from your scripts—I couldn’t sit through your TV series because it made me so annoyed. Regards, Darren.”

For some people, an insensitive comment like this might trigger an equally rude reply. But here’s how Lucy responded: “Oh Darren, I think you’ve used the anonymity of the internet to say something you probably wouldn’t say to my face. Please reconsider your unkind words! Lucy.”

Lucy’s measured response worked. Darren apologized and vowed not to send anyone such an email again.

“A gentle answer turns away wrath,” Proverbs says, “but a harsh word stirs up anger” (15:1). While the hot-tempered person stirs things up, the patient person calms them down (v. 18). When we get a critical comment from a colleague, a snide remark from a family member, or a nasty reply from a stranger, we have a choice: to speak angry words that fuel the flames or gentle words that douse them.

May God help us to speak words that turn away wrath—and perhaps even help difficult people to change.

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Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Today's reading title the truck drivers hands was written by Sheridan voicing the news came as a shock, having already survived prostate cancer. My father had now been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

To complicate matters. My father is my mother's full-time caregiver attending to her own chronic illnesses. With both parents needing care there would be some difficult days ahead. After flying home to be with them. I visited my parents church one Sunday.

There a man named Helmut approached me saying he'd like to help. Two days later Helmut visited our home with the checklist. You'll need some meals. When the chemotherapy starts.

He said I'll arrange a cooking roster. What about the mowing I can do that and what day is your rubbish collected helmet was a retired truck driver, but to us he became an angel.

We discovered he often helped others, single mothers, the homeless, the elderly, while believers in Jesus are called to help others. Some have a special capacity to do so.

The apostle Paul calls it the gift of mercy. People with this gift spot needs rally practical assistance and conserve over time without getting overwhelmed. Moved by the Holy Spirit. There the hands of the body of Christ reaching out to touch our wounds.

Dad recently had his first day of chemotherapy helmet drove him to the hospital that night, my parents fridge was full of meals. God's mercy through a truck drivers hands today's Our Daily Bread devotional Scripture reading is from Romans chapter 12 verses three through 84 by the grace given me I say to every one of you do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you for just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many form one body and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith if it is serving, then serve if it is teaching, then teach, if it is to encourage then give encouragement if it is giving then give generously if it is to lead, do it diligently. If it is to show mercy to a cheerfully let's go to God in prayer.

Heavenly father give us your eyes to see the needs of others and fill us with your mercy and compassion so that we may serve those in need by your goodness shine through us to this hurting world. And may we become known as true Christ followers in the way that we live. Thank you, Lord. It's in Jesus name that we pray. Amen on today's encouragement was provided by Our Daily Bread ministries