A LITTLE boy, who was much concerned lest he should not go to heaven, came to a minister, and earnestly inquired of him the way to heaven.
The minister was struck with the child’s eagerness, and after telling him of God’s goodness and readiness to receive the young and old to His rest above, he told the child to run quickly home, and kneel down and pray earnestly to be saved, for Christ’s sake.
With a mournful voice the little fellow said,
“O! sir, but suppose I should die before I reach home?”
The minister, who felt rebuked at the child’s simple answer, said;
“You are right, my child,” he said at once, “and I am wrong. I ought not to have told you to go home and pray to be saved, but, as the Scripture, God’s own Word, shows us, I should have told you. ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.’”
The dear child wanted to know the way of salvation, and God, through the lips of the minister, met his desire. He received the text pointed out to him as God’s own Word, believed it simply and found rest.
Has our reader the same earnestness as this little boy? Do these precious words, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,” satisfy your heart, and have you thanked Him for giving Himself for you on Calvary’s cross?
ML 06/16/1918