So, get this...my boss gave me the book The Purpose Driven Life for my birthday. I have been reading it ever since. One chapter at the time. I don't get to read it on the weekends and some days at work I don't get a chance to but I am just reading it every day at my own pace and just "muttering" (as my Daddy would say) over each and every word. I would recommend this book to anyone. I will not say the book is changing my life, but the things I am learning in this book through Jesus Christ is change my life!
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A few weeks back I was standing in the cafeteria in my office building and a man whom I had never seen before approached me and asked me what I thought about the book. I don't hide it in my purse or leave it on my desk, I purposely carry it in my hand every single day from the car to my desk and vice versa. As we stood in the cafeteria talking about this book I felt a connection just knowing that someone else was reading it along with me.
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Today, as I'm walking into the office and going through security one of the security guards stopped me after noticing the book in my hands. He began to tell me how he had once read the book and he began to share with me about his church and a food bank ministry that he has. We talked about how different people were and how we each had a purpose. For a minute there I thought we might just start having some church!
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As we finished our conversation and I headed towards my office I ran into my fellow book reader in the hall. I made a point to stop him and ask him if he was still reading the book. He began to explain that he had stopped reading it but that he was trying. I encouraged him to just keep reading because it is wonderful!
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As I walked off I began to think about how this one little book has brought two totally different encounters into my life. Then I began to think about how had I not been carrying the book these two different men would have never spoken to me. Why? What makes me so different from everyone else with this book in my hands? Then, it hit me...Jesus said in Matthew 4:19 "Come, follow me...and I will make you fishers of men." These men had fishnets in their hands! How else would others know that they were fishermen if they didn't have their fishnets? My Grandfather passed away before I was born but I have heard my Mom tell stories about him. He was a boat builder by day and fisherman by night. He had a fishnet needle that my Mom still has to this day. How did my Mom know he was a fisherman? Because, he caught fish in his fishnet!
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What type of fishnet are you carrying around? Do you have something different about you that makes people stop and want to ask what is so special about you? Prior to carrying this book I have just blended in with the crowd. Today I'm thinking...what will I carry now? I most certainly know the answer for me! I will begin to carry my Bible! If I want to catch some fish I most certainly need my fishnet!
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