KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Letters
JOHN KASS, A columnist for the Chicago Tribune, wrote about a waiter he met named Bouch, who worked at a tavern in Chicago...
Bouch decided to write to the king of his homeland, Morocco. King Mohammed VI is immensely popular because he often interacts with his subjects in public, he had freed political prisoners, and he helps the poor and disabled. When Bouch wrote to him from the United States, King Mohammed VI, true to form, wrote back.
"Look at the letters," Bouch told Kass. "These are letters from the king. If I meet him, I'll be so happy."
In his column, Kass mused, "How many guys hauling burgers in a Chicago tavern have a correspondence going with a royal monarch?"
The journalist was intrigued, so he talked to Morocco's deputy consul general in Chicago. Kass was told that it isn't unusual for the king to write personal letters to his subjects abroad.
"It happens a lot," the official told him. "The king loves his subjects."
THOUGHT: We fancy the idea that a king would correspond with a commoner. But there's something far more incredible. The King of kings, the Creator of the universe, has chosen to correspond with us. He has given us an entire book full of letters, stories, and poetry. (Mike Macintosh)
KneEmail: "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" ( 2 Tim. 3:16).