Joe Brown, a law officer. was killed in the line of duty and the fellow officers were trying to decide who would be the better of the other officers to deliver the message. It was finally decided that Trooper Ingram would be the one to take the word to her. He had always took things so seriously that they thought he would be the appropriate one to deliver the death message.
Trooper Ingram knocked on the front door of the Brown’s cottage and was greeted by Mrs. Brown. Trooper Ingram then asked, “Does Widow Brown live here?” She responded, “My name is Brown, but I am not a widow.” To which the trooper answered, “That’s what you think.”
It is very apparent that Trooper Ingram had a zero sensitivity level. No one should be that insensitive, and most folks could do without as much sensitivity as they already have. They walk around seemingly looking for an opportunity that they can claim offended them. At church the person may be offended because the preacher did not shake their hand. To learn about being sensitive study the lady in the fifteenth chapter of Matthew verses 21-28.
A woman came to Jesus with a problem at home; her daughter had a demon and no one could help her. She had faith that Jesus was the answer. When she first pled her case to Him, he answered her not a word. She continued to beseech him and his disciples said, “Lord, send here away." To make matters worse, Jesus said, “It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.”
Most people would have left at that point, but she responded, :Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master’s table.”
Jesus rewarded her persistence and faith by granting her petition. She knew, what many today do not know, that if you have Jesus, nothing else matters.
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