At a gospel meeting one night a man told this remarkable story.
He had gotten off at the train Depot one day, nothing more than a homeless tramp. He begged on the streets for a living for a whole year. Then one day, hungry and wretched, he touched a man on the shoulder and said, “Mister, please give me a dime!” As soon as he saw the man’s face he knew that it was his old father whom he hadn’t seen for years.
“Father, don’t you know me?” he exclaimed.
Throwing his arms around his son, the old man cried: “I have found you! I have found you! All I have is yours!”
“Think of it, men!” the man went on. “There I was a tramp, standing there begging my father for ten cents, when for many years he had been looking for me, longing to give me all he had!”
How vast is the love of God, “For God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8).
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