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“Two Hundred Miles of Thanks”
Categories: Christian PrinciplesIf you are grateful, say so! Thanksgiving is only half said until you have done something to show your thankfulness.
A missionary to India was traveling through a city and stopped to speak to a man beside the road. He talked with the man for a time about Jesus. Then, having to travel on, he gave him a few pages of the Bible in the man's language. The Indian read them and was thrilled to learn of Jesus.
To show his gratitude, the man measured the footprints left by the missionary and made a pair of moccasins. He then traveled 200 miles to give them to the missionary as an expression of thanks.
The missionary's life was enriched by the gift, but the Indian man was much more enriched because he had expressed his thanks.
Have you ever tried to give 200 miles of thanks?
Try it-you will be a better person because of it.
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“I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ. For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.” (Philemon 4-7)
