Dale Ralph Davis reflects upon how Mephibosheth did what he could to express his fidelity to Yahweh's anointed when the latter was exiled due to Absalom's coup (2 Samuel 19:24-30), and relates a true story he read about Orop, a boy who lived near the Akobo (Sudan) mission station.
At the cross, Jesus the Christ has done all that is necessary to bring us to God. All that is needed has been said and done. May the Lord help us to respond to his great love by doing what we can.
Missionary Don McClure tells how Orop loved to come to school. But he couldn't learn anything; he couldn't even write the letters of his own name in the right order. So he had to give up his place in school for another child.
He would still come, however, and sit outside the school window to listen to the Bible stories. Then he would round up a group of boys and retell the Bible stories. But he'd get them all mixed up; so McClure had to forbid Orop to tell stories about Jesus!
But then Orop received his call. Dr. McCLure told him that when he went out to a village to preach Orop could carry God's Book (McClure's Bible) for him. So every day as the sun came up Orop would be waiting for McClure and carry God's Book to the village du jour.
He did what he could.
One day a bunch of small boys were playing in the river when a crocodile latched on to one of them. All ran. But Orop jumped in to fight the croc. He succeeded in freeing the boy but the crocodile grabbed Orop instead. They only recovered one arm and one leg to bury.
He did what he could.
Orop had told his mother that he was not afraid to die, because Jesus would come to take him by the hand and lead him home. After his death this testimony stirred his mother to seek Jesus.
He had done what he could.(emphasis added)
At the cross, Jesus the Christ has done all that is necessary to bring us to God. All that is needed has been said and done. May the Lord help us to respond to his great love by doing what we can.
