“You must give up your old way of life; you must put aside your old self” (Eph. 4:22).
A woman claimed to have two bad habits. One was to always get to Church late, and the other was to buy more new clothes than she needed. She never went into debt, but she never saved any money…
One Sunday morning after Church, the woman offered a ride to an elderly man crippled with arthritis. She did not know where he lived, but she had watched him leave Church each Sunday and hobble slowly and painfully down the street. When the man accepted the ride and invited her into his dwelling, she learned that he had little food, no family, and a bare apartment. She also learned that, despite his pain, he walked almost two miles to and from Church each Sunday, and that he liked to get to Church about 15 minutes early in order to pray alone for awhile. With some misgivings, the woman…
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