Devotional Guide For the week of May 4, 2008
HARRY TRUMAN AND GOSPEL TRUTH
About strength of heart
To read the Bible in one year, today read Psalms 102-104
To Know:
³And he withdrew from them about a stones throw, and knelt down and
prayed,
Father, if thou art willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my
will but thine be done.ı And there appeared to him an angel from heaven,
strengthening him. And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his
sweat became like great drops of blood falling upon the ground.² (Luke
22:41-44)
Harry S. Truman showed the steel in his character when he fired General
Douglas MacArthur. When Truman was a small boy, classmates ridiculed him
for
reading books and taking piano lessons. He responded by immersing himself
in
a study of military history. To the amazement of his townspeople, he won
an
appointment to West Point. When he re****ted for the entrance exam, Truman
was turned down because of bad eyesight. When Winston Churchill came to
Fulton, Missouri to warn the world that an Iron Curtain had dropped on
Europe, Truman sat in his shadow. The presence of a wartime leader of
Churchillıs stature made a profound impression on the future president.
For
a man who was awed by military authority, as Truman was, to fire the hero
of
the Pacific War and the Commander of the U.S. forces in Korea revealed a
moral depth and strength that few possess.
To Do:
The strength in the spirit of Harry Truman pales compared to the steel in
the soul of Jesus Christ. So immense was the pressure weighing on him as
he
fought the temptation to flee from the cross that Jesus sweat blood.
Christ
stayed his course and died and Godıs wrath against sin was satisfied. No
one
else will ever know the ferocity of the suffering that the one and only
sinless man endured on the cross to do his fatherıs will and save his
people
from their sins.
To Ask:
Father, strengthen my heart in order that I may be able to stay true to
you
in the day of trouble.
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