One of the other things that I get to do now is to be editor of the SWIMS (Southwest Institute of Messianic Studies) online journal that comes out every three to four months (at least that's the goal) and I get to write an article for said journal....and the one that I will be writing for the upcoming journal is called "Straight Stick Living" and is based on the following quote by D. L. Moody....
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it.
And one of the best places I found to realize "straight-stick living" is in the hospital...because it is one thing to be able to win arguments and fight against evil with words and look good doing it. But when you have tubes sticking out of you, when nobody knows whether or not this day is going to be your last day, when you've had several bad days in a row...that is when you find out how real your faith is and that others will know the real you...whether there is something different about you or that you are a "pious poser". If you are a "straight stick", people will know and that is when real evangelism will begin and you will be able to share the One who makes all the difference.
So the challenge to us is....in every area of our life, be a "straight stick" and show others that you are different!
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