child and dog
"Life's Tonic"
▲The resurrected Jesus can both sympathize with our limitations and save us. Why not talk to Him about the difficulties in your heart with an innocent heart? He will respond to your sincere prayers at the best time!
Uncle, I want to buy a puppy. "In a pet shop in Taipei, a ten-year-old boy said to the boss. The boss was staring intently at the eight o'clock TV series. He casually pointed to a large glass box in the corner and said, "There are ten puppies over there. They are all less than a month old. You can pick them out yourself."
"This one will definitely stay..."
It was a drizzly winter night, and no other customers came. Amid the continuous crying and yelling, the boy picked carefully. After half an hour, the boss asked: "Have you chosen?" The boy replied in an excited childish voice: "I have chosen! How much does it cost?" "Those are mutts, half buy and half free, even if you Two thousand yuan is enough."
"Oh!" the boy said disappointedly, "I only have one thousand yuan, which is my lucky money. But my mother promised me that if I help clean the windows and mop the floor once, I will give me two hundred yuan. In this way, in five days I will There are two thousand yuan in total." The boy became happy again: "Five days, I can come and hold the puppy in five days."
The boss stared at the screen and said, "Such a cheap puppy, if you don't pick it up right away, it will be sold out soon!" But the little boy said confidently: "No! I will definitely save this one for my next visit.”
"I know how to take care of it"
Five days later, the boy came back. He happily took the puppy out of the glass box and handed a thousand-dollar bill and ten hundred-dollar bills to the boss. The boss looked at the dog carefully and said, "Why did you choose this one? You see that its right hind leg is lame. No wonder no one wants it. There is still one in the box that is not lame. Go and change it!" "The boy said: "No need, I like this one. I have been looking for a dog like this for a long time. I know how to take care of it." The boss looked at the boy in surprise, shrugged and said, "It's up to you! Then I'll take less. You’re good for five hundred dollars.”
When the little boy carefully stretched out his hands, turned around and walked out with the puppy in his arms, the boss finally knew why he had to choose this puppy. It turned out that this little boy was wearing iron shoes and dragging his right foot. He was a polio patient!
Jesus empathizes with us
The Bible describes Jesus Christ: "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us." God loved the world and sent His only begotten Son to become a human being and experience all human weakness, pain and helplessness.
The writer GK Chesterton described it very vividly: "The hands that created the sun, moon and stars were so small that they could not even contain an ox's head in the manger."
It is also not difficult for us to imagine the calloused and calloused hands of Jesus when he was working in the carpenter shop of his father Joseph on earth when he was a teenager. Finally, the hands were penetrated by large nails and torn apart by the weight of the whole body. Jesus was hungry, thirsty, cried, angry, wounded, and breathed his last. However, He rose again. Because of this, He can both sympathize with our limitations and save us. Just like that little boy who knew the pain of lameness and had the ability to save a lame puppy.
The Bible says it well in Hebrews 4:15-16: “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses. He was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin. So let us have confidence. Come to the throne of grace, that you may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
＊To discover the true love, please read the first cup of Life's Tonic "Life's Tonic"