Emphasis Preaching Journal

Incredibly, some of us turn down God's urgent invitations because we simply can't be bothered. It must vex and amaze the almighty to learn what some of our excuses become. Such was the case with three messengers who came with urgent communications for the seventeenth-century French scholar, Federic Morel. The first courier found Morel engrossed in translating a Latin text. He interrupted Morel to inform him that his wife lay gravely ill. "I have only two or more passages to translate," Morel said, not looking up.