SEE AND DO THE NEEDFUL
David Wells, M.D., a recent graduate of McGill University, volunteered his services as a physician to the Canadian “Peace Corps” and was sent to a remote area of Kenya in Africa. One night, Wells was wakened by an emergency. As he entered the clinic, he noticed a badly battered African dressed in rags and caked with blood and dust, lying on a makeshift litter carried by two exhausted villagers. They had been traveling for two days. Wells approached the injured man and was surprised to see a note carefully pinned to the patient’s rags. Written by a villager who was a Christian, the note read, “Please see and do the needful.” “Please see and do the needful” — isn’t this what “Christ calls us to do today in the world? Aren’t we all meant to see the hurts of those around us, and then to “do the needful”? Your covenant with Christ comes down to seeing and doing the…
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