by Anthony N. Wade

It was my first trip to New Mexico, USA. I was visiting there to do a series of meetings as well as reconnect with some friends that had moved there. I was instrumental in leading one of my friends to The Lord Jesus Christ. As normal I sang a couple of songs and commenced to minister the Word of God. During the ministry of the Word I would often used different sayings that to me aided in illustrating my points of view. One of those quotes I picked up from a minister that was very instrumental in my being in the ministry today. The saying I used was to expound on how simple some things are when comes to living our life for the Lord.

I used the saying that if a person had 'half sense and one eye' during my message. Little did I realize that that there was a man with one eye in the service. What was so amazing was not only was this man blind, but he wore a black patch over one of his eyes. In retrospect if I had scanned the congregation thoroughly enough I would have seen this man and never used that illustration. He was very noticeable, especially with a black patch on one of his eyes.

The pastor of this church confronted me about using the expression that I used. I apologized and told the pastor it was a slip of my tongue. What is the moral of this story? We should be aware of others in our presence that we could potentially hurt, offend, or put off by repeating something that we heard someone else say or do.