musings daily life: GET CHANCE

Reading: Acts 8:26-38
NATS: As long as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people (Galatians 6:10)

The rain outside when Marcia, director of the Jamaican Christian School for the Deaf, a speaker for our group. Thirty-four teenagers and a few adults enrolled in the school. However, a student we did not seem bothered by the rain outside or by the children running around the room.

The teenager was heard Marcia said, "I dreamed of having a playground for the kids." The student to remember the words of Marcia, and through the encouragement of God, he embodies the dream of being an idea. Later that day he said to me, "We will come back and build a playground for them." An opportunity has opened services.

After over four months, on a rainy day in Jamaica, we had a celebration in the same room. We gathered in a playground made of wood - complete with slide, ladder play, monkey bars, swings, fort, and trapeze. A student grabbed the opportunity and a dream come true.

How often God encourages us to act to meet the needs of others, but we let that opportunity pass? How many times the Holy Spirit encourages us to say or do something in the name of Jesus, but we ignore that impulse? Just as Philip in Acts 8, let us honor God by responding to Him through action. Seize every opportunity that God has given to serve others in His name - JDB

GIVE ENCOURAGEMENT WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT, ACT

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