You Always

You Always

This is the record of an incident which took place some four months ago. You can use it and adapt it according to your own setting and situation, but I know that in the three scenarios I recently used the piece, there was a reaction.

As soon as I heard about it I wrote it down in draft form. Then I worked on it and put in a local background. I shared it at a hotel luncheon to illustrate that point and to teach the lesson that now and again we miss the main point!

One man came up to me at the close and said that he was going to the parable in his next address and he was going to set it in the context of his local river. I will not tell you which one, but it was one of the most beautiful rivers in Scotland.

Pay close attention to the parable and pay even greater attention to the lesson which it so poignantly illustrates and teaches so exceedingly simple.

Two men met down at the beach. They were walking their dogs.

After a few minutes conversation, one man who had a fairly young dog asked his friend if he would like to see the new trick it could do, and the friend was really interested.

The man took a big stick and threw it spinning out over the water. The dog went after the stick, running across the top of the water, fetched it, and brought it back to his master.

As his friend appeared puzzled, the man took the stick and hurled it once more out to sea and off went the dog, running over the water to fetch the stick for his master.

"Did you not notice anything unusual?"

"Yes" came the reply. "Your dog can't swim."

How many people are there who miss the main point?

Jesus Christ spoke about people who can acquire so much, and have so much, and accumulate so much, and yet be unconcerned, impervious, and even careless about their spiritual future.

A very wealthy man, who had no interest whatsoever in Jesus Christ, or salvation, and having his sins forgiven, died, and when the question was raised as to how much he left, a reply was overheard, saying, "Everything!"

It is tragic to live life gaining so much in wealth, reputation, and position, but to have missed the whole point.

What good does it do to get everything you want and achieve every dream and goal you have, only to lose the real you?

Even in Jesus' day people missed the whole point. They honoured him with their lips, but their hearts were far away. They acted as though they were worshiping, but they didn't mean it.

Don't die having missed what is crucially important.

Sandy Shaw

Sandy Shaw is Pastor of Nairn Christian Fellowship, Chaplain at Inverness Prison, and Nairn Academy, and serves on The Children's Panel in Scotland, and has travelled extensively over these past years teaching, speaking, in America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, making 12 visits to Israel conducting Tours and Pilgrimages, and most recently in Uganda and Kenya, ministering at Pastors and Leaders Seminars, in the poor areas surrounding Kampala, Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. He broadcasts regularly on WSHO radio out of New Orleans, and writes a weekly commentary at http://www.studylight.org entitled "Word from Scotland" on various biblical themes, as well as a weekly newspaper column. His M.A. and B.D. degrees are from The University of Edinburgh, and he continues to run and exercise regularly to maintain a level of physical fitness.

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