Show Abundant Living He Is Blind Yet Deaf-Yet Adequate By E. E Stanle Stanley Jones Gal 15 Joel 32 32 We Ve have spoken of a berry in the mouth that sweetens everything That berry is a spirit of courage and faith A br brilliant nt young oung man my first Sunday school scholar was surveying a swamp near a powder factory He struck a piece of board on which there was a blister of nitroglycerin and it exploded rendering him totally blind and deaf At 26 he was blind and deaf deaf deaf- doomed doomed- to a dungeon eon existence without light without sound For Bor 24 2 hours he said I was beaten None of my family ever dies before 80 and Im I'm 26 I said to myself inwardly beaten But at the end of 24 hours he snapped out of it as 35 he puts i it and determined determined determined de de- de- de to meet life as a Christian Christian he he would find grace in the dungeon He has He brought a family into the world and supported them through a business he set up There is no way of communicating with him except by printing out the letters of words on the back of his hand so 50 all the correspondence in his business goes not through his hands but on the back of his hand When I asked him how it felt to be cut off from the world he laughed and said Im not cut off from the world He isn't every isn't-every every portion of his being is vi vibrant vibrant vibrant vi- vi brant with receptivity He is informed on everything To my question as to what was his greatest disability he replied I have a abad abad abad bad temper and get angry with those I Iloe love lo A blind and deaf man says his greatest disability is a moral disability When I asked him if there was anything he did not want me to say about him he replied Dont put it on too thick for people people people peo peo- will either think you are exaggerating or that Im I'm a superman Put it just where everybody can get it nobody need be beaten no matter what happens This man illustrates the fact that the thing that matters is not what happens to you but what you do with it after it does docs happen The Christian is afraid of nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing for he can use everything Jesus said Nothing outside a man can defile him him it Is what comes conies from him that defiles him Mark Moffatt Your reaction to what happens to you determines determines de de- de- de the result Brave Christ Chris make me brave Even if the worst should happen to me we can turn it into the best I say we for I cannot do it alone With Thee I can do anything bear anth anything ng go through anything Without Without With With- out Thee I wither But I am with Thee so I face the future with calm cairn joy Everything Everything Everything Every Every- thing is under my feet Amen From From the book Abundant Living published by Abingdon Abingdon Cokesbury Press Copyright |