Weekly Devotion: Like A Good Neighbor...
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Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.
-Matthew 21;31
Daniel and I moved into our house in North Minneapolis in 2007. On August 1 of that year, we all learned of the horrible news: the bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis collapsed at the height of rush hour. People around the metro area started to wonder if their friends and loved ones were okay. Were they on the bridge? Were they okay? Daniel and I went to go and get some dinner and as we came back Julie, our next-door neighbor came out running out of her asking if we were okay. She knew that we worked downtown and feared that we were on that bridge. We assured her that we were fine. Daniel and I both remarked that we were so surprised that someone who didn’t know us that well cared about us.
I remember the jingle from State Farm Insurance which goes, “And like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.”
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-Dennis Sanders, pastor