>The Rescue Team Rescued
>
>For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
>whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
>life. John 3:16.
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>Lying on the street was a badly wilted chrysanthemum stem. The parent
>plant was close by, and somehow the little stem had been broken off and
>left to perish. As I walked by I noticed it. Then I did a double take.
>I'm going to pick that up and see if I can bring it back to life, I
>thought. After all, it was doomed for the trash, and what did I have to
>lose, except a bit of time. It was so limp that I wondered why I should
>waste the effort.
>
>When I got home I made a friendly plant nursery for the little
>casualty, watered it tenderly, then waited. I was very happy the next
>day to see that it had revived and was showing tiny signs of life.
>Weeks went by, and it began to look alive. I pinched out the top as it
>started to grow and stuck that in the ground beside it. Finally, when
>the starts began to show some real growth, I transplanted them to their
>very own pot.
>
>I was most eager to see what color my new plant was going to be. All of
>my other chrysanthemums were blooming merrily-all but my little rescued
>plant, which refused to put on any buds. But grow it did-big and
>beautiful-except that there were still no blooms. Then, when all the
>other chrysanthemums had quit blooming, it started budding out-and out,
>and out! It was a gorgeous, fluffy, dark pink shade. And what a flurry
>of blooms it produced! I had never had such a prolific plant.
>
>In the Bible we read about the dry bones that had no life, but life was
>breathed back into them. "Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones;
>Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live" (Eze.
>37:5). So it is with all of us. We have been rescued by the heavenly
>rescue team that was dispatched from heaven to come to this earth to
>enable us to have life eternal. God alone can see in each of us the
>potential for everlasting life.
>
>"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
>whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
>life." Thank You, Father!
>And when He transplants, anything beautiful can happen!
>--PAT MADSEN
>
>
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Examine me, O LORD, and prove me: try my reins and my heart. Ps.26:2
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in men.Ps.118:8