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Devotionals Practice What You Preach A man pulls up to a red light behind one other car. He notices the driver of the car in front of him is talking on his cell phone and appears to be shuffling through some papers on the seat beside him. The light turns green, but the driver doesn't notice. The man waits, but the driver doesn't notice the light change. The man begins pounding on his steering wheel and yelling at the man to move. The car doesn't move. The man is going ballistic inside his car, ranting and raving at the car ahead, pounding on his steering wheel and dash. The light turns yellow. The man begins to blow the car horn and screams and curses at the man. The driver hearing the commotion, looks up, sees the yellow light and accelerates through the intersection just as the light turns red. The man is beside himself, screaming in frustration as he misses his chance to get through the intersection. As he is still in mid-rant he hears a tap on his window and looks up into the barrel of a gun held by a very serious looking policeman. The policeman tells him to shut off his engine while keeping both hands in sight. He complies, speechless at what is happening. After he shuts off the engine the policeman orders him to exit his car with his hands up. He gets out of the car and he orders him to turn and place his hands on his car. He turns, places his hands on the car roof and is then quickly cuffed and hustled into the waiting patrol car. He is too bewildered by the chain of events to ask any questions and he is driven to the police station where he is read the Miranda rights, fingerprinted, photographed, searched, booked, and placed in a cell. After a couple of hours a policeman approaches the cell and opens the door for him. He is escorted back to the booking desk where the original officer is waiting with his personal effects. He hands him the bag containing his things, and says, "You can go now. We found you are not guilty of a crime. The reason I brought you in is I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn and cussing a blue streak at the person in the car in front of you. Then I noticed the "God Loves You" license plate holder and the "Follow Me to Sunday School" bumper sticker and the chrome plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk so naturally I assumed you had stolen the car. "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works." James 2:17-18 |
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