This is the story of Eliot.  It helps me remember Malakai.  It helps me realize that there are others feeling the way I feel.  I makes me so thankful for an experience in my life that God was able to use to show Himself to me.  I would not know God the way I know him today if it wasn't for Malakai.  Eliot and Malakai are together now, praising God for how Great He is!  I can't wait to join them.

I had another opportunity to watch how God works in people's lives, regardless of their current walk of life.  Sergio was walking on the interstate and I gave him a ride to my exit.  I am so thankful that God has allowed me to be self employed, or employed by God himself, where I have time to help people I meet.  God never lets me pass someone on the road without assessing the situation and stopping if they look like they need help.  Sergio was a believer but for whatever reason, was walking from south Texas to Oklahoma.  He wasn't too surprised that I stopped as I was just a little part of God's provision for him that day.  The Bible tells us that not one sparrow drops to the ground without our Heavenly Father knowing.  Do you think he honestly ignores people who are homeless, because they don't work? Sergio shared with me that just that morning he was praying that God would provide for him that day because he had been harassed by a police officer who thought he was drunk and pushed his head to the pavement, cutting his eye.  His stitches were getting nasty and itching after a week of drying in the sun, and he wondered how he would get them out.  Soon after he began walking a Doctor stopped to give him a ride.  When he dropped him off he pulled a pair of scissors out of a bag and delicately removed his stitches.  God watches the least of his children intently and provides for them as he provides for each of the rest of his children.

Charles Spurgeon Exhortation to Preach the Gospel!

"Oh, you that preach Christ, preach him boldly! No coward lips must proclaim His invincible gospel! Oh, you that preach Christ, never choose your place of labor; never turn your back on the worst of mankind! If the Lord should send you to the borders of perdition, go there and preach Him with full assurance that it shall not be in vain.

Oh, you that would win souls, have no preference as to which they shall be; or, if you have a choice, select the very worst! Remember, my Master’s gospel is not merely for the moralist, in His respectable dwelling, but for the abandoned and fallen in the filthy dens of the outcast. The all-conquering light of the Sun of Righteousness is not for the dim dawn alone, to brighten it into the full blaze of day, but it is meant for the blackest midnight that ever made a soul to shiver as in the shadow of death. The name of Jesus is high over all, in Heaven, and earth, and sky, therefore let us preach it with authority and confidence; not as though it were an invention of men. He has said He will be with us, and therefore nothing, is impossible. The Word of the Lord Jesus cannot fall to the ground, the gates of Hell cannot prevail against it. The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. The Lord shall bruise Satan under our feet shortly."

At what level of "blackness" do we draw our line and in essence say, "Not that person, Lord.... And certainly not that one."?