A chaplain in an army during a war was passing over the field when he saw a soldier who had been wounded, lying upon the ground. He happened to have his Bible under his arm, and he stooped down and said to the man:
“‘Would you like me to read you something that is in the Bible?”
“The wounded man said, ‘I am so thirsty, I would rather have a drink of water.”
The chaplain hurried off, and as quickly as possible brought the water.
“‘Could you lift my head and put something under it?”
The chaplain removed his light overcoat, rolled it up, and tenderly lifting the head, put it as a pillow for the tired head to rest on.
“‘Now, said the man, ‘if only I had something over me. I am so cold.’”
There was only one thing the chaplain could do, and that was to take off his coat and cover the man. As he did so, the wounded man looked up in his face and said:
“‘If there is anything in that book that makes a man do for another what you have done for me, let me hear it.’”
Has anyone ever been led to love, and study God’s Word because of your life – something you did or something you said? Have others started on the journey to the kingdom because of you?
This is the real essence of Christianity!
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