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What Goes Around Comes Around
'The deeds of a man's hands will return to him' Proverbs 12:24
A woman noticed an old man struggling to fix his flat tyre in the midday sun. She hoped someone would stop and help but when nobody did, she went back and found the old man weak and perspiring. 'Thanks,' he gasped. 'I prayed somebody would stop.'
Soon chatting, the man introduced himself as Bill Krumweide; he talked about his family and his hobby of collecting antique farm equipment. He offered to pay her but the Good Samaritan said, 'Just knowing I was an answer to prayer is enough.'
Ten years later the same lady was worried about her aging father, who could no longer take care of the family farm. When she called in a volunteer organisation for help, one of the volunteers looked familiar, and when he introduced himself she realised why.
It turned out he was the elderly man's son, Bill Krumweide, Jr. 'Thank you for helping my dad all those years ago,' he said. 'I'm the one who owes you,' the woman replied. 'It's amazing how one kindness followed another and connected our families in a bond of gratitude.
And it started ... with an old man's prayer.' What goes around comes around: 'The deeds of a man's hands will return to him.' God rewards us 'according to [our] work' (Prov. 24:12 NAS).The Bible says, 'knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord' (Eph. 6:8 NKJ).
written by Bob Gass
'The deeds of a man's hands will return to him' Proverbs 12:24
A woman noticed an old man struggling to fix his flat tyre in the midday sun. She hoped someone would stop and help but when nobody did, she went back and found the old man weak and perspiring. 'Thanks,' he gasped. 'I prayed somebody would stop.'
Soon chatting, the man introduced himself as Bill Krumweide; he talked about his family and his hobby of collecting antique farm equipment. He offered to pay her but the Good Samaritan said, 'Just knowing I was an answer to prayer is enough.'
Ten years later the same lady was worried about her aging father, who could no longer take care of the family farm. When she called in a volunteer organisation for help, one of the volunteers looked familiar, and when he introduced himself she realised why.
It turned out he was the elderly man's son, Bill Krumweide, Jr. 'Thank you for helping my dad all those years ago,' he said. 'I'm the one who owes you,' the woman replied. 'It's amazing how one kindness followed another and connected our families in a bond of gratitude.
And it started ... with an old man's prayer.' What goes around comes around: 'The deeds of a man's hands will return to him.' God rewards us 'according to [our] work' (Prov. 24:12 NAS).The Bible says, 'knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord' (Eph. 6:8 NKJ).
written by Bob Gass
