"Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all
longsuffering and teaching." (2 Tim. 4:2)
An army Chaplin was ministering to a dying boy in World War II. He asked if there was any
message he would like to send home. The young man replied, "Yes, tell mom and dad I died
happy. Also, tell my Bible class teacher that I died a Christian, and I have never forgotten his
teaching."
A few weeks later the army Chaplin received a letter from the Bible class teacher. The letter said,
"God have mercy upon me. Only last month I resigned from teaching Bible classes, for I felt that
my teaching was not doing any good; and scarcely had I, through my cowardly, faithless heart,
given up my appointed work, when I got your letter telling me that my teaching had been the
means of winning a soul to God. I'm taking up my work again and, in Christ's name, I'll be faithful
to the end."
Let us steadfastly teach the will of God as we have opportunity.