A gathering of friends at an English estate nearly turned to tragedy when one of the children strayed into deep water. The gardener heard the cries for help, plunged in, and rescued the drowning child. That youngster’s name was Winston Churchill. His grateful parents asked the gardener what they could do to reward him. he hesitated, then said, “I wish my son could go to college someday and become a doctor.” “we’ll see to it,” Churchill’s parents promised.
Years later, while Sir Winston was prime minister of England, he was stricken with pneumonia. The country’s best physician was summoned. His name was Dr. Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered and developed penicillin. He was also the son of that gardener who had saved young Winston from drowning. Later Churchill remarked, “Rarely has one m an owed his life twice to the same person.”
Churchill’s experience reminds us of our double indebtedness as Christians to God. First, our heavenly Father gave us the precious gift of physical life. Then through His Son, the Great Physician, He imparted to us the priceless gift of eternal life.
This should motivate us to present our body as a living sacrifice to the Lord (Romans 12:1). To Him we are double indebted for life. – Dennis J. De Haan
My life, my love, I give to Thee,
Thou Lamb of God who died for me;
O may I ever faithful be,
My Savior and my God. – Hudson
We cannot fully enjoy the gift of physical life until we have received the gift of eternal life.
- July 5, 1990, Our Daily Bread
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