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Roger Bothwell
Four Pennies While
getting out of my car today at Taco Bell I spotted four copper pennies midst
the ice and slush that covered the parking lot. When I was a boy I would have been
thrilled to no end over such good fortune.
Four pennies would have warranted a trip to the corner grocery store
where I could select four wonders from the glass case by the door. I could get a pair of big red wax lips, a
piece of Double Bubble, a large yellowish-orangish
marshmallow peanut and a Tootsie roll.
If I saved them until I had six more pennies I could get a Superman
Comic Book. Can you believe it? Sixty years have past and I didn’t bother
to stoop to pick them up. Shame on me.
But then I’m not sure what I could get
with four cents. I am
so glad God doesn’t devalue us. He
could think, “I have billions of people on earth. It doesn’t matter if I lose four.” Hebrews 7:25 says, “Therefore
He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him,
since He always lives to make intercession for them.” I love to change one of the words to “guttermost.” It
really works. It says so much. No matter how worthless we might think we
are, each of us is a treasure to God.
Each of us is the reason for Jesus’ sacrifice. When it comes to people there is no
bypassing even one. One of my favorite
stories is found in Matthew 9. A woman
who had been crushed to the ground by the crowd touched his robe. Instantly he stopped and went back to
her. She made His day. Actually she made His whole mission. I'm Roger Bothwell and my address is roger.bothwell@verizon.net or 151 Old Farm Rd. Leominster, MA 01453. Thank you for your support of our faith ministry. Past devotionals can be accessed
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