"Dr. J.B. Gambrel tells an amusing
story from General Stonewall Jackson's famous valley campaign. Jackson's army
found itself on one side of a river when it needed to be on the other side.
After telling his engineers to plan and build a bridge so the army could cross,
he called his wagon master in to tell him that it was urgent the wagon train
cross the river as soon as possible. The wagon master started gathering all the
logs, rocks and fence rails he could find and built a bridge. Long before
daylight the wagon master told General Jackson that all the wagons and artillery
had crossed the river. General Jackson asked where the engineers were and what
were they doing. The wagon master's only reply was that they were in their tent
drawing up plans."
It has been said that there are three kinds of people:
those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who don't
know that anything is happening!
With God's help, I want to be a doer and
among those who make things happen. In college days, I was attending a
college-age youth group. The group was struggling and I was asked by the leaders
what I thought was wrong. I said that I didn't feel I had a right to criticize
unless I was willing to do something about the problems.
Guess what ? I got actively
involved as a doer. Those were some of my best college days.
Let's not
be critical unless we are willing to be involved. To be a doer, start doing
something of eternal value, realizing that we serve God by serving people.
Dear God
please help me
to invest my life
by being actively involved
as a doer in the work of Your
Kingdom
—no matter how small and menial the
tasks I do may appear to be.
Thank You for hearing and answering
my prayerz ..
