red hair temper 6/23 Thursday thoughts

In our Sunday school we had a boy with red hair.  His head was as red as fire and so was his temper.  He was such a trial.  He kicked his teachers and the superintendent.  He was imply uncontrollable.  The teachers had a meeting in which they discussed the matter of expelling him.  They thought that God might undertake for that boy and so they decided to give him another chance.  One day he had to be turned out, and he broke all the windows of the mission.  He was worse outside than in.  Sometime later we had a ten-day revival meeting.  There was nothing much doing in that meeting and people though it a waste of time, but there was one result -- the red-headed lad got saved.  After he was saved, the difficulty was to get rid of him at our house.  He would be there until midnight crying to God to make him pliable and use him for His glory.  God delivered the lad from his temper and made him one of the meekest, most beautiful boys you ever saw.  For twenty years he has been a mighty missionary in China.  God takes us just as we are and transforms us by His power.

               -- Smith Wigglesworth