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Date Posted: 21:43:54 10/16/06 Mon
Author: Cheri
Subject: Now How Shall We Live?



This week's promise:

God is a refuge for the oppressed
Not just our heavenly father
"Father to the fatherless,
defender of widows —
this is God whose dwelling is
holy.

Psalm 68:5 NLT

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From skull basher to brain healer........


Fourteen-year- old Ben was on the fast track to prison. The African-American
youth had no father, was failing every class at school, and had a ferocious
temper. He once tore open a classmate's forehead with a rock and even
threatened his own mother with a hammer.

But instead of ending up in prison, Ben landed in a hospital—one of the most
prestigious in the world. Today he is Dr. Ben Carson, chief pediatric
neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. How did he turn his life
around?

The first person to stop Ben's one-way trip to prison was his mother. She
took him to church and turned off the TV. She made him read several books a
week and write reports on them.

But his mother couldn't control Ben's terrible temper. One day he became
outraged at another boy and tried to stab him in the abdomen, but the blade
struck the boy's belt buckle and broke. Suddenly Ben realized what he was
doing. Horrified, he ran home, locked himself in the bathroom, and fell to
his knees. "Lord," he prayed, "I cannot control this temper. It's up to
you—I'm giving it over to you."

Ben spent three hours closeted in the bathroom, wrestling with God in prayer
and Scripture meditation. When he finally emerged, his temper was gone—never
to return.

As Carson describes in his autobiography, Gifted Hands, in that cataclysmic
experience, he realized how God could actually be the father he had lacked—
a father to the fatherless."


adapted from How Now Shall We Live? Devotional by Charles Colson (Tyndale) pp 567-68



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