Get off your Donkey (pt. 2) . . . “you don’t care”
So what does this “Donkey” look like?
Actually – NO . . . most of us don’t ride really donkeys so the “Donkey” is speaking of something different here. Let me share a story I heard this past Sunday of a guy name Jamie getting off of his “Donkey”. You can listen to the podcast here (11 a.m. service – story starts @ 3:15). He was sharing how God has taken him on a journey into a life lived on mission and challenging everyone else to join the same . . . by the way – it is the “CALL OF GOD ON EACH OF US!”
So the story Jamie tells goes this way – he was traveling with his family and needed to go through a toll road. As it becomes his turn he does what lots of us do . . . he says, “how are you today?” The guy takes his $1 and replies, “you don’t care.” Well, Jamie says, “thank you” and drives off. Then about a mile or so down the road it hit him what the guy had said and he was just broken over the fact the man was right – “I don’t care!” So, he “Got off his Donkey” and turned his car around. He paid the toll to go the wrong way . . . he did a U-turn, got in the man’s lane and pulled back up to the guys booth again. The guy at the toll booth asked, “didn’t I just see you?” ”Yes, but you said you were doing bad and I didn’t care – well you were right and I don’t want it to be that way. So, I am back. What’s wrong?” The guy in the toll booth says, “man my feet hurt” . . . Jamie tells this guy, “I don’t really know what I can do about your feet – is there anything more going on, something I can pray for?” The guy from the toll booth begins to talk about marriage problems as cars behind are starting to honk their horns and are beginning to give Jamie directions – not directions to his next stop. Things like, “Go to H_ _ L” . . . So Jamie gives him the number to the church in the area where the toll booth is and say’s, “I got to get out of here.” The guy actually called Jamie a few months later and said thanks for stopping and that he had called the church. He also said that things with him and his wife were getting better.
That is “Getting off your Donkey”! It is Loving God through Loving Others as you Love yourself . . .
