“ I thought I was the teacher, but Joanna and the rest of the students at the center are the ones teaching me.” Those are the words of Drema Sizemore Drudge, writing in a recent issue of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Drema was working at an adult education center, where many students struggle economically. One day she was approached by a an unemployed student, Joanna, and was presented with a Christmas gift, a nicely wrapped box of chocolates. Drema wanted to refuse it, but holding back tears hugged Joanna and said, “Thank-you.” This touching story reminded me of another story, with greater implications. Paul, in a letter to believers of his day, wrote, “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for ourselves He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.” He was speaking of Jesus’ leaving the riches of His Heavenly home, coming to live in poverty on earth and dying on a cross to pay the penalty of our sins and make us spiritually rich.

Pastor Alex Rockwell

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