Little Doreen came home from Sunday school with a very solemn face.
“Mother, our verse in class today was, ‘Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.” Rev. 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).
“Teacher said it meant Jesus was knocking at our hearts and wanted us to let Him in. I wish I knew how to open the door.”
“I believe,” said her mother, “that if you told Him all about it, He would come in right away.”
There was silence for a few minutes, and then Doreen dropped on her knees, and in her own seven-year-old way, she invited the Lord Jesus to come into her heart.
She rose from her knees with a happy smile and said,
“Mother, I really believe He has come in. I’m saved.”
There were a few minutes more of silence while her mother was breathing a prayer of thanksgiving, and again Doreen dropped on her knees and said in a firm voice, “Dear Lord Jesus, now You are in, please shut the door. Amen.”
I hope it is your desire and mine, ‘dear Christian reader, to keep our hearts forever closed to anything which would not please our Lord Jesus.
“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.”
ML 12/19/1954