a thought to gnaw on...

I heard this story a the other day that that made me stop and think that I thought I'd share.

          "On a normal day at the Japanese POW camp the American prisoners were working with shovels,but it turned into a not so normal day there after a Japanese guard went around and counted the shovels then made all the prisoners line up,then with his gun pointing at them yelled angrly in his broken English, "A shovel is missing and one of you took it,the soldier who took it step fore ward." The men stood in their straight line. Again the Japenese guard yelled in his broken English, "If the man doesn't step fore ward,I will shot the each of the men in line one by one." after a small pause full of tension the guard raised his gun to shoot,but before he did a young man stepped forward and spoke these simple words, "I did."
The guard clearly angry  took the man and beat him to death. At the end of the day the rest of the men put away the shovels took the dead man away. It was only then at the end of the day that the guard recounted the shovels and realize it was a mistake all the shovels were all there."

Now I don't remember the story exactly,but thats the story reworded in my own words.

                                               Isn't that story impactful.
          I wonder what went through thats guards mind?! Or his fellow prisoners minds?!
                   What an amazing, yet sad example of showing Christ's love.

John 15:13
    "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends."