God's Wife

Gather round boys and girls, for I want to tell you an important story.

Once upon a time a boy of about ten years was standing before a shoe store on Broadway.  He was barefooted and was peering through the window.  It was a cold and blustery day and he shivered as he stood looking in the window.

A lady approached the boy and asked, “My small fellow.  Why are you looking so intently at that store window?”

“I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes,” he replied.

The lady took him by the hand and went into the store.  She asked the clerk to gather together half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy.  She then asked for a basin of water and a towel.  The store clerk complied and quickly brought the water and towel to her. 

She took the boy to the back part of the store, and removing her gloves; she knelt down, washed his wee feet and dried them with a towel. 

Just as she finished the store clerk brought the socks to her.  She carefully picked a pair of socks out of the stack and began putting them on the boy’s feet, and then she placed a nice and shiny pair of shoes on his feet.  She asked the store clerk to wrap the remaining socks in a bundle and gave them to the boy.

As she turned to leave, she patted him on the head and said, “No doubt, my young man, you feel more comfortable now?”

The astonished young man took her hand and looked up into her face.  Tears were seeping from his eyes.

He asked “Are you God’s wife?”

You see, in that one simple act she became the hands of God. 

How can you and I become God’s hands and feet to those around us? 

My friend Bruce died two years ago.  His best friend Chuck was asked to deliver a poignant moment about Bruce’s life.  He described him thus:

“Bruce was Jesus with skin on.”

We move in and out of other’s lives every day.  We have opportunities to do some good in this world.  We can become the hands and feet of God in odd moments and seemingly insignificant ways.

May we dare to become the brother, the sister, the man, the woman, and yes, the wife of God.

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