Three-year-old Anne was coloring in her coloring book and talking to her mother at the same time. “We want to go to heaven to be with Jesus and we don’t want to go to hell, do we, Mommy?”
Her mother said that was right, but did she know how to get to heaven?
Anne said, “Ask Jesus to wash your sins away.”
Then her mother asked her if she had asked Jesus to wash her sins away.
Anne said, “No.”
Her mother said, “Anne, would you like to ask Him right now?”
Anne’s answer was, “Not now. I want to finish coloring.”
“Anne, what would happen if the Lord Jesus came while you were still coloring?”
Anne looked at her mother with big eyes and answered truthfully, “I would go to hell.”
Then her mother asked her if she wanted to ask the Lord Jesus to wash her sins away right then, and Anne said yes.
They got down on their knees to talk to the Lord Jesus.
After Anne finished telling Him about her sins and wanting Him to wash them away, her mother asked her, “Did He wash your sins away?”
Anne said, “Yes!”
Are you still waiting to talk to Him about washing your sins away? He loves you very much and wants to wash them away right now. Anne didn’t wait and neither should you, because He might come before you decide to talk to Him.
ML-02/23/1997