SABBATHKEEPING HAMMER
Berto Menon, a poor shoemaker, lived in Spain. One day he heard beautiful music coming over his radio. A male quartet was singing, «Lift up the trumpet, and loud let it ring.» «Nice music,» Menon said to himself. After he heard the speaker present a short talk on God’s love, he added, «Hey, nice sermon.»
The shoemaker began listening every day to the broadcast. When an Adventist literature evangelist stopped by, he purchased several books and discovered that the messages in the books sounded like those on the radio.
«That’s our church’s Voice of Prophecy program,» the LE explained. «We preach and sing about the beautiful truths found in the Bible.»
Menon accepted every doctrine that Adventists teach except one. «You can’t convince me that God doesn’t want me to work on Saturday,» he insisted.
When the shoemaker showed up for work early the next Sabbath morning, he couldn’t find his hammer. He looked everywhere, then went home. Without a hammer, he couldn’t work. The next day he found it.
A week later he arrived at the shop bright and early on Sabbath morning, picked up his hammer, adjusted his first shoe carefully, slipped a nail between his fingers, took aim, and began tapping. Crack. The hammer broke in two.
«All right, all right!» Menon moaned. «Someone’s trying to tell me something.» So instead of working that day, he headed for the local Seventh day Adventist church. Weeks later he was baptized. To celebrate his joining the family, church members presented the shoemaker with a brand-new hammer—one they knew would never work on Sabbath.
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Tomado de: Daily Devotions for Junior 2020
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From: Charles Mills
Colaboradores: Javier Gadea & Miguel Miguel