What Did He See?
The following story has some truth in it:
He came home after school with a paper for his
mother. He told her, “My teacher gave
this paper to me and told me to only give it to my mother.” His mother’s eyes were tearful as she read
the letter out loud to her child:
“Your son is a genius.
This school is too small for him and doesn’t have enough good teachers
for training him. Please teach him
yourself.”
Many, many years later, when he was a man, the boy’s
mother died. He was now one of the
greatest inventors of the century. One
day he was looking through old family things. Suddenly he saw a folded paper in
the corner of a drawer in a desk. He
took it and opened it. On the paper was
written:
“Your son is addled [mentally ill]. We won’t let him come to school any more.”
Thomas Edison cried for hours and then he wrote in his
diary: “Thomas Alva Edison was an addled child that, by a hero mother, became
the genius of the century.”
According to the TruthOrFiction website, here is the true
account of Edison’s childhood experience as stated by the Foundation for
Economic Education:
“In 1854, G. B. Engle belittled one of his students,
seven-year-old Thomas Alva Edison, as “addled.”
This outraged the youngster, and he stormed out of the Port Huron,
Michigan school, the first formal school he had ever attended. His mother, Nancy Edison, brought him back
the next day to discuss the situation with Engle, but she became angry at his
rigid ways. Everything was forced on the
kids. She withdrew her son from the
school where he had been for only three months and resolved to educate him at
home.”
Ray Hawk recently wrote: “After reading this story I
wondered what that teacher saw as he looked at the Edison boy? He certainly didn’t see a great
inventor! Edison was dyslexic, [a
condition] which that teacher, nor anyone else at that time, knew how to
treat. Therefore he thought Edison was
‘addled.’”
Personalize this.
“What does God see in me?” The
Bible says that God loves me. Why? What does He see in me?
When God looks at you (and me), He sees a sinner (Romans
3:23). He also sees a sinner that He
wants to save (1 Timothy 2:4). When He
looks at you (and me), He sees a sinner for whom He gave His Son to save him (“her”)
from his (“her”) sins (John 3:16).
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While
we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
Because of His great love for us, God gave Jesus to die
on the cross for our sins so that we might have forgiveness, be added to His
family, and receive the gift of eternal life (Ephesians 1:7; Galatians 3:26-27;
Romans 6:23).
God will save YOU if you will place your faith and trust
in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turn from sin in repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confess
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and be baptized (immersed) into Christ for
the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38).
When God sees YOU, He sees a sinner that He wants to
save.
Won’t YOU accept His offer on His terms?
– David A. Sargent
* From “My Thoughts” for 11/5/15 by Ray Hawk and www.truthorfiction.com
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