On a spring day in April in Bermuda, seven-year-old Rachel went off to school as usual. She thought it would be just another ordinary day. But it wasn’t.
About 11 o’clock a tornado hit the island. Its strong whirlwinds tore roofs off 20 homes and scattered furniture and belongings over the fields. Large hailstones pelted the school. The windows rattled and the building shook.
Rachel screamed, closed her eyes and covered her ears. She screamed again and again. She was so frightened that she crawled under her table and continued crying.
Her classmate tried to comfort her. “Why are you crying? You’ll be all right.”
Rachel replied, “But my daddy is outside working in this awful storm.” Then Rachel said to herself, What am I doing? I belong to the Lord Jesus, and many of these children don’t know Him and I am making such a fuss . . . I’m going to pray. So she quietly asked the Lord Jesus to keep her daddy safe. Then she got out from under her table and said, “He’ll be all right.”
Sometimes those of us who belong to the Lord Jesus forget to ask Him for help when we are in trouble. The Bible reminds us what to do. Psalm 56:33What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. (Psalm 56:3) says, “What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee.” And Psalm 86:77In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. (Psalm 86:7) says, “In the day of my trouble I will call upon Thee: for Thou wilt answer me.” When Rachel remembered that she belonged to the Lord Jesus, she asked Him for help. What do you think happened?
Soon, the storm lessened and the children went back to their schoolwork.
After school Rachel hurried home as fast as she could. When she got there she found, to her great delight, that her daddy was safely at home. She gave him a big hug and said, “Oh, thank the Lord you are safe.”
Do you know why Rachel knew she could ask the Lord Jesus to keep her daddy safe? It was because several years ago she accepted Him as her Saviour and she belongs to Him. If He loved her so much that He died for her sins, she knew she could trust Him to take care of her daddy in that terrible storm.
Rachel learned this little hymn in Sunday school and then she opened her heart to Jesus.
At the heart’s door
the Saviour’s waiting,
At the heart’s door locked in sin.
Can’t you hear Him gently
knocking?
Open the door and
let Him in.
Have you ever opened your heart to Jesus? He loves you and He is knocking right now. Why not let Him come in?
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man [boy or girl] hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.” Revelation 3:2020Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20).
ML-11/07/1993