Subject: 5 Important Lessons

For the next 5 days I'm going to share another email I got from my friend Joyce. Who knows if it's true...who cares! The lessons are valuable and I believe they will touch your heart if you let them. Have a great day!!


Shelly



Subject: 5 Important Lessons

1 - First Important Lesson - Cleaning Lady.


During my second month of college, our professor
Gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student
And had breezed through the questions until I read

The last one:


"What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?"

Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the
Cleaning woman several times. She was tall,
Dark-haired and in her 50's, but how would I know her name?



I handed in my paper, leaving the last question
Blank. Just before class ended, one student asked if
The last question would count toward our quiz grade.
"Absolutely, " said the professor. "In your careers,
You will meet many people. All are significant.. They
Deserve your attention and care, even if all you do
Is smile and say "hello."



I've never forgotten that lesson.. I also learned her
Name was Dorothy..


Now for Pastor Hersch,
And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said to Him, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?" Matthew 11:2–3



Have you ever had something happen in your life that caused you to say, “Where is God?” No less than the greatest prophet who ever lived, John the Baptist, faced this struggle.



John had put it all on the line for Jesus. He had baptized Him in the Jordan River. He pointed his own disciples to Jesus, whom he believed was the Messiah. John had clearly pledged his complete loyalty to Jesus.



Yet a strange series of events took place after that. One moment, he was out preaching to the multitudes and baptizing people. The next moment, he was in prison.



The great John the Baptist began to entertain some doubt. So he sent his disciples to Jesus with this question, “Are you really the Messiah we’ve been waiting for, or should we keep looking for someone else?”

Jesus’ disciples and John commonly believed that Jesus would establish His kingdom then and there.



But they failed to recognize that before Jesus would establish His kingdom, He would first come to suffer and die for the sins of humanity. John misunderstood the prophecies of Scripture, and therefore felt that Jesus was not doing what He was supposed to do.



Sometimes we, too, misunderstand God and His Word when He doesn’t do what we think He should do or when He doesn’t work as quickly as we would like Him to. But even when we cannot understand God’s ways, His methods, or His timing, He still asks us to trust Him. And He is trustworthy.



Pastor Hersch