John, the name of the little boy in our picture today, brings to mind another lad with the same name and about the same age, who loved to give out gospel tracts. He used to go out with his father for a walk, and found great pleasure in helping him pass out these precious stories of the Saviour’s love. Because of his sweet, childish manner very few people refused to take a tract from him.
One evening as they returned home, he looked at his father with a very serious expression on his face and said, “I would like to write a tract myself.”
His father said that he was very willing to let him do this, for he wanted to see, what was really in the child’s mind. He knew that sometimes a lesson can be learned from a child, too.
After supper Johnnie went up to his room, and about an hour afterward he returned with his tract for his parents to read. He was only a little lad and could not write, but he had printed the following message in capital letters: “GOD IS LOVE. GOD LOVES YOU. DO YOU LOVE HIM? I LOVE HIM. JOHNNIE.”
Needless to say his father and mother were quite pleased with their little boy’s tract. After this he occupied himself during several days making copies of his tract, and then gave them out to those he met in the street.
What a wonderful message Johnnie’s tract tells! Yes, “God is love,” and He loves you, dear reader. But we also read in the Bible that “God is light.” He is holy and cannot have sin in His presence; so if He was to show His love to us poor sinners, the question of our sins must be settled. On the cross of Calvary the Lord Jesus, God’s beloved Son, bore the punishment of sin for all who put their trust in Him, and now as a risen Saviour He offers a full and free pardon to “whosoever will.”
Johnnie’s tract also asked the queion, “Do you love Him?” If you have put your trust in Him as your Saviour, then I am sure you do, for the Bible says,
ML 09/26/1954