Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

I'm Tom Felton and I titled today's encouragement, How Are You?

Charla was dying and she knew it.

While she was lying on her hospital room bed, her surgeon and a group of young

interns poured into the room. For the next several minutes, the doctor ignored Sharla as he

described her terminal condition to the interns. Finally, he turned to her and asked,

And how are you? Charla weakly smiled and warmly told the group about her hope and peace in Jesus.

Some 2,000 years ago, Jesus battered naked body hung in humiliation on a cross before a crowd of onlookers.

Would he lash out at his tormentors?

No.

Jesus said,

Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.

Though falsely convicted and crucified,

he prayed for his enemies.

Later he told another humiliated man,

a criminal that, because of the man's faith, he would

soon be with him in paradise.

In his pain and shame, Jesus chose to share words of hope and life out of love for others.

As Charlotte concluded sharing Christ with her listeners, she posed the question back to the doctor.

She tenderly looked into his tear-filled eyes and asked,

And how are you?

By Christ's grace and power, she had shared words of life, showing love and concern for him and others in the room.

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