"The story is told that one day the devil decided to put all his tools up for sale. On the date of the sale, the tools were lined up on a table. Each one was marked with its sale price. They were a treacherous lot of implements: there was one for pride, and one for jealousy, and envy, and so on. But set apart from the rest was a harmless looking tool. And it was quite well-worn, and yet it was priced very highly. 'What’s the name of this tool?' asked one customer, pointing to it. 'That is discouragement,' Satan replied. 'Well… why have you priced it so high?' asked the customer. 'Because it's more useful to me than all the others,' Satan replied. 'I can pry open and get inside a man's heart with that, even when I can't get near him with any of the other tools. It's badly worn because I've used it on almost everyone, since so few people know that it belongs to me.’ Unsurprisingly, the devil's price for discouragement was so high that the tool never sold." Jon Teasdale From the sermon "Ephesians 3 - Trusting in Christ - Do you depend on God in Prayer?" Jesmond Parish Church, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, October 18, 2015 |
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All thy sins were laid upon Him, Jesus bore them on the tree;
God, who knew them, laid them on Him, and, believing, thou art free. Joseph Denham Smith (c. 1817-1889) Praise reflection archives
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2 Kings 19:30 |