FILTHY RESTROOMS
In one of his books Bruce Larson gives a remarkable example of humble service in telling about Gert Behanna, who wrote The Late Liz. Gert Behanna was converted at age sixty and became one of the great evangelists of our time, speaking to groups all over the country. She told Bruce this story: “You know I travel around speaking for God and in the process I’m forced to use gas station restrooms which are almost always filthy. I used to complain about that to God. I’d say, ‘Lord, if I’m your servant, how come I’ve got to use these dirty restrooms?’ One day in the midst of this kind of complaint, He seemed to say, ‘Gert, I come into this restroom too, right after you.’ Somehow, I’ve never thought about that.” From that moment on, she said she never left a public restroom without cleaning the mirror, wiping the tile sink and picking towels up off the floor. After all that, she’d…
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