One stormy evening when they could not get out, Mother and the three children decided to have a meeting of their own at home.
“I can lead the singing and pray,” offered four-year-old Johnny.
“And Mother can tell us a Bible story,” said Gertrude. So the meeting began.
When they had sung all the choruses that nine-year-old Louise knew how to play, Mother suggested they have a time for testimonies and favorite Bible verses.
Louise stood up quickly and said, “I would like to give my testimony and tell how I got saved.”
Mother sat up in her chair. She knew that Louise had often been anxious about her salvation, and she had tried to show her from the Bible how to trust in the Lord Jesus, but she did not know that Louise had been saved. She was saying, “I wanted to be saved for a long, long time. One day I asked Daddy to tell me just exactly how he got saved, but he didn’t seem to know what I meant, and he just showed me Bible verses. Then I asked Mother, and she just showed me Bible verses, too. I wanted to be saved so badly that lots of nights I cried myself to sleep, and the next morning I would have a headache. One night I cried so long I had such a bad headache the next day that I couldn’t go to school.
“Then Daddy was gone for a week, so I asked Mother if I could sleep with her. Mother didn’t know why I wanted to, and I didn’t tell her. But I was so afraid that the Lord Jesus would come in the night to take the Christians to heaven and I wouldn’t go because I was still a sinner, and not a Christian. When I thought Mother was asleep, I would take hold of her nightgown and hold on as tight as I could so that maybe I would get to go, too. But when I fell asleep I would forget and let go.
“When Friday of that week came I went to a children’s meeting, but I wanted to be saved so badly I couldn’t seem to hear what the preacher was saying. Two boys got saved that night.
“When we got home I was crying and I told Mother I wanted to be saved right then. So the others went to bed, and Mother took her Bible and read to me John 3:33Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:3); John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16); John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24); and John 1:1212But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: (John 1:12). Then I prayed, and then I was saved.”
Louise finished her testimony and was about to sit down when Mother asked, “Louise, were you saved because you prayed?”
“Oh, no, Mother. I received the Lord Jesus as my Savior!” Louise answered simply.
Would you like to read the verses that helped Louise to understand? Here they are: John 3:33Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:3): “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, Verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24): “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
Why don’t you do just now what Louise did, receive the Lord Jesus as your Savior, and tell Him so?