Dear Friends,
What is the secret of success in working for God? Today’s devotional is a marvelous success story and answers that vital question. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• James 4:10 (ESV)

   Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

“Years ago I took part in a Sunday school convention at Moody Memorial Church in Chicago. During a lunch break, three of us who were teaching at the convention walked across the street to a little hamburger shop. The place was filled but soon a table for four opened up. We saw an elderly lady whom we knew was attending the convention because of the bag she was carrying, and we asked her to join us.

“We learned she was eighty-three and from a town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In a church with a Sunday school of only sixty-five people, she taught a class of thirteen junior high boys. She had traveled by Greyhound bus all the way to Chicago the night before the convention? Why? In her words, ‘To learn something that would make me a better teacher.’

“I thought at the time, Most people who had a class of thirteen junior high boys in a Sunday school of only sixty-five would be breaking their arms to pat themselves on the back: ‘Who, me? Go to a Sunday school convention? I could teach it myself!’ but not this woman.

“Eighty-four boys who sat under her teaching are now young men in full-time vocational ministry. Twenty-two are graduates of the seminary where I teach.” [Howard G. Hendricks, Teaching To Change Lives, (Portland, OR: Multnomah Press, 1987), p. 23-24]