Did You Ever Wet Your Pants In School?
There’s a little
nine-year-old boy sitting at his desk and all of a sudden there’s a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his
heart is going to stop because he can’t possibly imagine how this
has happened. He had never wet his pants before and he knows that when the
boys find out, he will never hear the end of it! When the girls find out,
they'll never speak to him again as long as he lives.
The boy believes his heart is going
to stop, he puts his head down and prays this prayer, "Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now!
Five minutes from now I'm dead meat."
He looks up from his prayer and here
comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered. As the teacher is walking toward
him, a classmate named Suzie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is
filled with water.
Suzie trips in front of the teacher
and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy's lap. The boy
pretends to be angry but all the while is saying
to himself, "Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!"
Now, all of a sudden, instead
of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy.
The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while
his pants dry out.
All the other children are on
their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is
wonderful but as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has
been transferred to someone else - Suzie. She tries to help but they
tell her to get out. “You've done enough, you klutz!"
Finally at the end of the day as
they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Suzie and whispers, "You did that on
purpose didn't you?" Suzie smiles and whispers back, "I
wet my pants once too."
Compassion from a friend at any age
is a wonderful thing but an answer to a prayer at the right moment is
priceless! Also, let's never forget that Jesus was the object of ridicule that should have been ours.
