GEORGE was just eight years old and one day a very strange feeling came over him. When his mother urged him to eat his dinner he said, "No, Mother, I can't eat anything. I'm not hungry."
"Then, George, you must be sick. I'll take your temperature." When she took his temperature, he was immediately packed off to bed.
His mother called the doctor. Later that evening George was awakened and had to sit up so the doctor could examine him. He felt giddy and so ill that he could scarcely breath. Outside a storm was raging, the wind was howling and the rain lashing against the window pane. At last the doctor spoke.
"I'm sorry to tell you," he said in a whisper to George's mother, "your son is very ill and I'm afraid there is no hope for him."
George heard his words, however, and repeated to himself, "No hope . . . no hope!" Like a flash the eight years of his life passed before him. His father and mother were both saved. His mother had taught him much of the Bible. He had often heard his father preach the gospel in crowded halls, and here he was, dying at eight years of age, and "no hope!"
"I'm going to hell," he thought, for he knew that he had said and done many wrong things that would shut him out of heaven. His mind was all confused and afraid. Then suddenly it cleared for a moment. Quickly he said in a prayer to the Lord Jesus:
"Just as I am without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
Oh Lamb of God, I come."
The Lord heard his prayer, and He who never turns a repentant sinner away, saved him that night in the hour of his deepest need.
Peace filled George's heart and he fell asleep without waking for three days.
Slowly George recovered from that terrible illness, but he never forgot that dark stormy night when he found Christ as his Saviour, when He washed away all his sins in His precious blood shed for sinners on the cross of Calvary.
Don't delay, dear boys and girls. No matter how young you are, you need to be saved. If you have never opened wide the door of your heart and asked the Lord Jesus to come in, do it now.
"Into my heart; into my heart;
Come into my heart, Lord Jesus.
Come in today, Come in to stay;
Come into my heart, Lord Jesus."
Messages of the Love of God 4/6/1975