Positive Witness

By   Gary James Smith, Canada

> WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK
>
> I guess that I was born to whistle. Ever since I can
> remember as a young lad I would be whistling while on the
> way to school or when I was working or oftimes just while
> resting. Little did I know the witnessing tool that it
> would become when I became a Christian. After I was saved
> and the Lord put a new song in my heart I began to whistle
> the new hymns that I had heard and learnt at our church.
> They took up residence in my life and had to find a way of
> expression somehow, I mean who can not burst forth in song
> or whistle when one has been redeemed. Who does not notice
> a happy whistler. I know I sure do. I have oftimes been on
> a job site or at a store and have heard someone whistling
> and it has picked up my spirit as well.
>
> Just a couple of days ago I was whistling while shoveling
> snow on a job site and when a couple of ladies walked by,
> one of them said, "Are you whistling to keep warm?" "No,"
> I said,"I am whistling because I have a warmth in my heart
> because I know the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal
> Saviour". Both of them chuckled and then one of them said,
> "You should sing!" I said, "I can do that too" and sang a
> bit of the hymn, Hallelujah, What a Saviour. They entered
> into the building laughing. Do you think that that would
> have an impact on their day, I believe it would! I can
> hear them telling their fellow employees you should have
> seen the crazy guy that we met this morning.
>
> I am now going to share with you how whistling led to
> meeting a fellow at a gas pump and how he later became a
> pastor at the church I attended in Calgary. I had been
> doing some jobsite cleanups in the northwest area of town
> and had stopped to gas up. While standing at the pump |
> was whistling away and a small sized yellow honda
> motorcycle pulled up. I nodded to the fellow as he put his
> kickstand in position and began to fill his tank. He said
> to me,"Well you sure sound like a happy camper" I then
> said to him, "wouldn't you be happy if you knew that your
> sins had been forgiven and that if you were to die today
> that you would go to heaven" He then responded , "You must
> be a Christian," I said "yes, I am, and you?" He said that
> he was and asked me what church I attended. When I told
> him that I attended a small baptist church, he said that
> he attended one as well. I then said to him, you should
> come out for a service sometime, he said, "I will, where
> is your
>  church located anyways?" When I gave him the location he
> was suprised. He said,"I live on that street and I don't
> see any church located there." I said, we are meeting in a
> steel butler buiding 40' by 60'. He said "Is that what
> that building is" "I live right across the street from
> it." We both chuckled shook hands and left rejoicing.
>
> A couple of months went by and Frank never showed up at
> our services. Then one day while at the same gas pump
> filling up again, lo and behold who would show up on that
> little yellow honda motorcycle, but Frank. When he began
> apologizing for not making it out to a service and that he
> was going to try and make it there. I responded, "Frank, I
> don't want you to feel pressured to come, just come when
> it is convenient for you."
>
> The very next Sunday Frank came and was warmly welcomed by
> the small congregation. He enjoyed the message and the
> fellowship and eventually became a member of that church
> and praise God he also became the pastor. So my challenge
> to you dear believer, "Just whistle while you work", you
> never know who's life might be changed as a result
> thereof.