A young and successful executive was driving down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was not really watching for kids who could dart out from between parked cars…but, when he thought he saw something, he slowed down.
As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door! He slammed on the brakes and then backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown from.
He was furious as he jumped out of his car. He grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting, “What was that all about and who are you? What do you thinking you were doing? That’s a new car, and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money to get it fixed. Why did you do it?”
The young boy was very scared, but polite and apologetic. “I am sorry, Mister. I didn’t know what else to do,” he pleaded. “I had to throw the brick because no one else would stop for my call for help!”
With tears now rolling down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car. “It’s my brother—he rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair. He may be badly hurt, and I can’t lift him up.”
Now sobbing, the boy pleaded with the stunned executive, "Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? I need to get him back into the chair and back home, but he's just too heavy for me."
Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly, yet carefully, lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair. Then he took his linen handkerchief and dabbed at the boy’s fresh scrapes and cuts, which fortunately were not serious. When he thought that everything would be ok, he started back to his car.
“Thank you, sir, and God bless you!” said the grateful boy.
The executive was too shaken up to even answer and simply watched the little boy push the wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.
It was a long and slow walk back to the Jaguar, and an even longer drive back home for the man. When he got out of his car, he again looked at the dent in his car door. The damage was very noticeable. Yet, he never bothered to get it repaired. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message:
“Do not go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention.”
Moral: God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don't have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. It's our choice to listen to the whisper or wait for the brick.
- Author Unknown
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Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Philippians 2:4 ESV
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:32 ESV
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk, but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:17-18 ESV
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.’ Matthew 24:40 ESV
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2 ESV
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