"If you can't pull me out of the mud, don't plunge me deeper in." - Unknown
Don and Moya Ritchie live on a plot best described as something out of a bad dream. It's the most notorious suicide spots in Australia. Every morning Mr. Ritchie looks out the window to see if anyone is "standing alone too close to the precipice." If he senses someone may be contemplating suicide, he approaches them and asks if they'd like to talk over a cup of tea. "I'm offering them an alternative," he says. The Ritchies have saved an estimated 160 people from taking the leap. Ritchie has been able to save more people than he's lost in fifty years. "If you couldn't have talked him out of it," one teenager's mum told him, "no one could."
The most important thing we get get out of life after salvation, is the peace that you helped someone who couldn't repay you. We're ambassadors for Christ. Are you representing Him as you should. If you're unable to pull people up, out of their pits, then do not pull them deeper than you met them.
Where do you live and who is it that needs your help? The truth is, you and I don't have to go searching for people in need, they're right under our noses. From the little hungry and dirty boy, on the street to the old lady trying to cross the busy street, with a cane. You don't need a pulpit in a fixed location to preach Christ. Your actions, responses and little concern is enough to touch someone.
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