I hope you enjoy it.
In the city of Chicago, one cold, dark night, a blizzard was setting in
A little boy was selling newspapers on the corner, the people
were in and out of the cold. The little boy was so cold
that he wasn't trying to sell many papers.
He walked up to a policeman and said, "Mister,
you wouldn't happen to know where a poor boy could find a warm place
to sleep tonight would you? You see, I sleep in a box up around
the corner there and down the alley and it's awful cold in there, of
a night. Sure would be nice to have a warm place to stay."
The policeman looked down at the little boy and
said, "You go down the street to that big white house and you knock on
the door. When they come out the door you just say John 3:16 and
they will let you in."
So he did, he walked up the steps to the door, and knocked on
the door and a lady answered. He looked up and said,
"John 3:16."
The lady said "Come on in, Son." She took him in and she
sat him down in a split bottom rocker in front of a great big old
fireplace and she went off.
He sat there for a while, and thought to himself
"John 3:16....
I don't understand it, but it sure makes a cold
boy warm." Later she came back and asked him "Are you hungry?" He
said, "Well, just a little. I haven't eaten in a couple of days and
I guess I could stand a little bit of food."
The lady took him in the kitchen and sat him
down to a table full of wonderful food. He ate and ate until he
couldn't eat any more. Then he thought to himself
"John 3:16...
Boy, I sure don't understand it,
but it sure makes a hungry boy full."
She took him upstairs to a bathroom to a huge
bathtub filled with warm water and he sat there
and soaked for a while. As he soaked,
he thought to himself,
"John 3:16...
I sure don't understand it, but it sure makes a dirty boy clean.
You know, I've not had a bath, a real bath, in my whole life. The only
bath I ever had was when I stood in front of that big old fire hydrant
as they flushed it out." The lady came in and got him, and took him to a
room and tucked him into a big old feather bed and pulled the covers
up around his neck and kissed him goodnight and turned out the
lights. As he laid in the darkness and looked out the window at the
snow coming down on that cold night he thought to himself,
"John 3:16...
I don't understand it, but it sure makes a tired boy rested."
The next morning she came back up and took him
down again to that same big table full of food. After he ate she took
him back to that same big old split bottom rocker in front of the
fireplace and she took a big old Bible and sat down in front of him and
she looked up at and she asked "Do you understand John 3:16?" He
said, "No, Ma'am, I don't. The first time I ever heard it was last
night when the policeman told me to use it."
She opened the Bible to John 3:16, and she
began to explain to him about Jesus. Right there in front of that big
old fireplace he gave his heart and life to Jesus. He sat there and
thought,
"John 3:16.
I don't understand it, but it but it sure makes a
lost boy feel safe." You know, I have to confess I don't understand
it either, how God would be willing to send His Son to die for me,
and how Jesus would agree to do such a thing. I don't understand it
either, but it sure does make life worth living.
Author Unknown
John 3:16
16. 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.
17. For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through him might be
saved.
18. He that believeth on him is not condemned:
but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he
hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
