2 Kings 4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing… A member of Whitefield's Sunday Afternoon Men's Meeting stopped Mr. Horne a little while ago and said, "I have a crow to pluck with you." "Oh, only one?" said Mr. Home. "What is that? You have taken away my Sunday afternoon's nap!" "How is that?" asked the well-known preacher. "Well, I used to sleep all Sunday afternoon, and now I come to Whitefield's." "And how do you like it?" "Oh, I find it far more interesting to be awake!" The story is worth repeating, because there are tens of thousands of people who seriously assume that it is more interesting to be asleep. God has made us for wakefulness, and in all the departments of our life the wakeful man receives the surprises of the Almighty. How much the wakeful man can see in the country lane! There are uncounted numbers of village people who are still asleep, and whose senses have never begun to discern the transient glories of their own surroundings. I have just been staying with a man who makes it part of his ministry of life to open the senses of young villagers whose lives are cast in these entrancing spots. He tells me that they are entering into the unknown world with all the fascination exercised by a fairy tale. Birds and flowers have become the fairies in their once commonplace world, and now that they am awake they find it surpassingly interesting. (Hartley Aspen.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked. |
    |