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The following is a true
story --
Every Sunday afternoon, after the
morning service at their church, the Pastor and his eleven year old son
would go out into their town and hand out gospel tracts.
This particular Sunday afternoon, as it came time for the Pastor and his
son to go to the streets with their tracts, it > was very cold outside
as well as pouring down rain.
The boy bundled up in his warmest and driest clothes and said-- "OK,
dad, I'm ready."
His Pastor dad asked---"Ready for what?"
"Dad, it's time we gather our tracts together and go out."
Dad responded---"Son, it's very cold outside and it's pouring down
rain."
The boy gave his dad a surprised look, and asked---"But dad, aren't
people still going to Hell, even though it's raining?"
Dad answered---"Son, I am not going out in this weather."
Despondently the boy asked--- "Dad, can I go--please?"
His father hesitated for a moment then said---"Son, you can go.
Here's the tracts; be careful, son."
" Thanks, Dad!!! " And with that he was off and out into the
rain. This eleven year old boy walked the streets of the town going door
to door and handed everybody he met in the street a gospel tract.
After 2 hours of walking in the rain he was soaking bone chilled wet and
down to his VERY LAST TRACT. He stopped on a corner and looked for someone
to hand a tract to but the streets were totally deserted. Then he
turned toward the first home he saw and started up the sidewalk to
the front door and rang the door bell.
He rang the bell--but nobody answered. He rang it again and again bit
still no one answered. He waited but still no answer.
Finally this eleven year old trooper turned to leave but something stopped
him. Again, he turned to the door and rang the bell and knocked loudly on
the door with his fist.
He waited, something holding him there on the front porch. He rang again,
and this time the door slowly opened. Standing in the doorway was a very
sad looking elderly lady.
She softly asked-- "What can I do for you, son?"
With radiant eyes and a smile that lit up her world this little boy
said---
"Mam, I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but I just want to tell you that
JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU, and I came to give you my very last gospel
tract which will tell you all about JESUS and His great LOVE."
With that he handed her his last tract, and turned to leave. She called to
him as he departed---
"Thank you son! And God bless you!"
Well, the following Sunday morning in church, Pastor Dad was in the >
pulpit and as the service began he asked---
" Does anybody have a testimony or want to say anything ?"
Slowly, in the back row of the church, an elderly lady stood to her feet.
As she began to speak, a look of glorious radiance came from her face as
she said--> "None of you in this church know me. I've never been
here before. You see, before last Sunday I was not a Christian. My husband
has passed on some time ago, leaving me totally alone in this world. Last
Sunday, being a particularly cold and rainy day, it was even more so in my
heart as I came to the end of the line, where I no longer had any hope or
will to live. So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into
the attic of my home. I fastened the rope securely to a rafter in the roof
then stood on the chair and fastened the other end of the rope around my
neck.
Standing on that chair, so lonely and brokenhearted, I was about to leap
off when suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell downstairs startled
me."
"I thought-- I'll wait a minute, and whoever it is will go away. I
waited and waited--but the ringing doorbell seemed to get louder and more
insistent and then the person ringing also started knocking loudly.
I thought to myself, again---Who on earth could this be ?! Nobody ever
rings
my bell or comes to see me. I loosened the rope from my neck and started
for the front door, all the while the bell rang louder and louder. When I
opened the door and looked I could hardly believe my eyes, for there on my
front porch was the most radiant and angelic little boy I had ever seen in
my life. His SMILE, oh, I could never describe it to you !!!
And the words that came from his mouth caused my heart, that had long
been dead, TO LEAP WITH JOY as he exclaimed with cherub like
voice---
'Ma'am,>> I just came to tell you that JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU.'
Then he gave me this gospel tract that I now hold in my hand."
"As the little angel disappeared back out into the cold and rain, I
closed my door and read slowly every word of this gospel tract. Then I
went up to my attic to get my rope and chair. I wouldn't be needing them
any more. You see, I am now a happy child of the King, and since the
address of your church was on the back of this gospel tract I have come
here to personally say THANK YOU TO GOD'S LITTLE CHILD WHO CAME JUST IN
THE NICK OF TIME; AND BY SO DOING, SPARED MY SOUL FROM ETERNITY IN
HELL."
There were now no dry eyes in the church. And as shouts of praise, and
honor to the King resounded off the very rafters of the building, Pastor
Dad descended from the pulpit to the front pew where the little boy was
seated; he took him in his arms and sobbed uncontrollably.
Probably no church has had a more glorious moment. AND this universe has
never seen a papa that was more filled with love & honor for his
son--->> EXCEPT for one---this Father also allowed His Son to go out
into a cold & dark world. He received His Son back with joy
unspeakable, and as all of heaven shouted praises and honor to the King,
The Father sat His beloved Son on a throne far above all principality and
power....and every name that is named....
There may be someone reading this,
who is also going through a dark, cold, lonely time in your soul. You may
be a Christian, for we are not without problems, OR you may not yet
know the King. Whatever the case, and whatever the problem or
situation you find yourself in, and no matter how DARK it may seem,
I want you to know that I just came to tell you---
JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU.>>
Author Unknown
"For God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life"
John 3 : 16 KJV>> That son is : Jesus Christ |
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