DOUBLE DEBT

Years ago a wealthy English family was entertaining friends
at their home.  As the children swam, one ventured into the
deep water and began to drown.  The gardener heard the other
children screaming and jumped into the water and saved the
child.  The youngster's name was Winston Churchill.  Deeply
grateful to the gardener, the parents asked how they could
ever repay him.  He hesitated, but then said, "I wish my son
could go to college someday to be a doctor."  "He will," said
Churchill's parents.  "We will pay his way."

Years later when Sir Winston was Prime Minister, he became
ill with pneumonia.  The best physician the king could find
was called to the bedside of the ailing leader.  His name:
Sir Alexander Flemming, the developer of penicillin and the
son of that gardener who long ago saved a drowning Winston.
Churchill later said, "Rarely has a man owed his life twice
to the same person."

As believers we owe a debt of gratitude and service to the
Lord because He made us and He saved us.

- C.K. Bannister -