DO IT LIKE HE DONE IT!!!

As I was doing some reading this past week I got some ideas for these devotions and I look forward to sharing many with you in the future. God bless as you read and hopefully share these with others who might need to be encouraged. So let's begin again.

According to a newspaper columnist, a major business concern received the following letter from one of its salesmen~ It was apparent that this particular salesmen was somewhat illiterate, but his letter read rather well.

Here is that letter:
"Dear Boss, I seen this outfit which ain't never bot a dime's wurth of nuthin from us and so I sole them a cuple hundred thosand dolars wurth of our guds. I am now on my way to Chacawgo."

Two days later a second letter arrived reading as follows: "I com here and sole them over haf a milyon dolars wurth." Both of these letters were posted on the company bulletin board with a note attached from the company's president.

Here is how it read:
"We ben spendin too much time tryin to spel insted of tryin to sel. I want evrybody should reed these letters from Gooch (salesmen's name) -he is on the rode doin a grate job for us. You should go out, all of you, and do like he done."

The lesson here might be more obvious to some than to others, but here it is. Sometimes in our lives we get so easily caught up trying to think of new ways or methods of reaching lost souls for Christ. We sit in meetings and come up with gimmicks that are sometimes so outlandish that we know no one could resist. Programs are launched and much effort is put into planning and devising ways to get 'THEIR' interest. We organize and reorganize; we establish institutions for the purpose of hopefully getting the work done that we know needs to be done, sometime, somewhere, by someone. Too often we fall in love with the mechanics of our invention rather than the product it was intended to produce. Often we forget our purpose, the very purpose which we accepted and to which we were called. Are we as the Church spending too much time greasing the machinery or only trying to enlarge our machine for the purpose of numbers alone? Our concern should still be, and always be, the same as Christ's concern; those outside of Christ who need to hear of this loving Saviour. A few 'Goochs' are worth more to the cause of Christ than all the organizations of human design.

Jesus made it very simple, "Go therefore and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you" (Matthew 28:19-20).
The Apostle Paul wrote, "I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; to both the wise and the unwise. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel " (Romans 1: 14-15).

God bless until our next time.