During last week, I traveled for
ministry and fellowship to the Mon Valley in Western Pennsylvania, the place of
my birth. Incidentally, Belinda and I truly
appreciate the hospitality and generosity of my brother, Pastor William C. Bass,
and our lifelong friend, Pastor Maurice B. Wade. On Sunday, I heard an amusing anecdote at the
Gate of Heaven Church of God in Christ, my home church.
A man and his wife were having some
problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that he would need
his wife to awaken him the following morning at five o’clock for an early business
flight.
Not wanting to be the first to break
the silence (and lose), he wrote on a piece of paper, “Please wake me up at
5:00 A.M.” He then left it where he knew
she would find it.
The next morning, the man woke up,
only to discover it was 9:00 A.M. and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to confront his wife to
see why she hadn’t wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the
bed. The paper read, “It is 5:00 A.M. Wake up.”
While this story is certainly comical,
it generates rather sobering thoughts.
Can any of us honestly state that any disagreement or argument we have been
party to over the years was ever worth the dissention, debate or drama that was
generated? I doubt it. The aftermath of strife is typified by guilt
and regret.
Most importantly, what is God’s
perspective on this issue?
If it be possible, as much as lieth
in you, live peaceably with all men.
Ephesians 4:26-27
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not
the sun go down upon your wrath:
27 Neither give place to the devil.
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