There is a story by Leo Tolstoy entitled, “Where love is, God is too.” It is the story of an old shoe cobbler who, one night, hears a voice while in a deep sleep. The voice tells him that on the very next day the Lord Jesus will visit him. Next morning he begins his work in a spirit of high expectation as he eagerly awaits the coming of the Lord. But the only visitors he has that day are people in distress.
First, there is an emaciated old beggar with a racking tubercular cough. The old cobbler takes him in, warms him by the fire, and gives him food. Next, to appear is a half-frozen, thinly clad young woman carrying her hungry baby in her arms. She needs food and clothing, and the old cobbler obliges. Then an old woman comes. She is terribly upset because a young lad tried to steal her apples she intended to sell. The cobbler knows the boy and he is able to bring the two together and reconcile them.
The day has not turned out as he expected, but the cobbler has not forgotten the promise of the Lord’s visit. Tired now, he falls asleep in his chair and he hears the same voice from the previous night:
“I was hungry and you fed me. I was thirsty and you gave me drink…I was sick and you ministered to me.” (Matthew 25:35-36)
Then the old cobbler smiled as he went to bed, the Lord, indeed, had visited him.
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