September 20, 2020

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Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. – Psalm 96:2

A couple had just moved into a new apartment and they were besieged by salesmen for every kind of product and service. This was back in the days when dairies still made home deliveries. So one busy day a dairyman came to the door. “No,” said the woman firmly, “My husband and I don’t drink milk.”

“Be glad to deliver a quart every morning for cooking.”

“That’s more than I need,” she replied, starting to close the door.

“Well, ma’am, how about some cream? Berries comin’ in now, and …”

“No,” she said curtly, “we never use cream.”

The dairyman retreated slowly, while the woman congratulated herself on her sales resistance. The truth was that she had already ordered from another dairy, and this seemed to her to be the easiest way out.

The following morning, however, the same dairyman appeared at the door. In one hand he held a bowl of dewy strawberries and in the other a half-pint bottle of cream.

“Lady,” he said, as he poured the cream over the berries and handed them to her, “I got to thinkin’—you sure have missed a lot!” The woman changed dairies. (From Reader’s Digest -May, 1982).

Truth is until we have tasted and know the goodness of our God, it is a hard sale to share with others the blessings of our God.  Today, is the day to recharge, to gather in worship (even if you join online) so that we can taste, again, the goodness of our God. When our hearts of full to overflowing with the joy we have experienced in worship, we are then ready to go and sing God’s praises day-to-day, as the Psalm says.  We always need that reminder however, to stop, recharge, and allow God to refresh our spirit’s with spiritual milk.

Grace & Peace,
Sam