SO WHAT'S YOUR SCRIPTURE VERSE?

This week we have been spending some time with our families in Ohio. We had
a family outing one day this week and ended up back at our son's house with
our kids and grandkids.

Our daughter-in-law shared that they were having trouble getting our 9 year
old grandson Christopher to write stories for a creative writing school
classes. Since I write, she asked if I could help motivate him. He is at
that stage (in a little boys) life that he likes gross or shocking things,
so I decided to work with that. We adults had just returned from an outing
to a local indoor shooting range and I had injured my thumb, so being the
creative writer that I am, I suggested he write a story titled, "The day my
dad shot off my grandpa's thumb." He thought that was a great idea and
commenced to put together a story of what happened (including the trip to
the emergency room where all was made right, etc.)

When he ended the story grandma said, "What about the scripture?" He said,
"What?" She said well, "Grandpa always works a scripture into his stories to
teach a lesson about what God would want us to do." At that point, we, as
adults offered suggestions as to an appropriate scripture or scripture
application. He rejected all of our suggestions and came up with a unique
scripture of his own. He said the scripture to use is, "'Do unto others as
you would have them do unto you,' because we shouldn't shoot off someone's
thumb!"

Well, I guess you can't argue with that logic and he did use verse of
scripture. As you look at your life today, the things you said, the things
you have done, what would be the scripture verse you would put with it? I
hope that the verse that might summarize our lives would be the words of
Jesus in Matthew 5:16, where he said, "Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in
heaven." (KJV) If not, maybe we had better take a close look at the way we
walk and talk in the "real world" where we live.

Russ Lawson