He was unconverted and worse than that, he wasn’t concerned about it. But he didn’t want his little Julie to know and possess what he didn’t. So he and his wife agreed that their Julie should go to Sunday school. Under God’s gracious hand this was going to be a means of blessing to that home.
Sweetly and simply Julie placed her faith and trust in the Savior she heard about at Sunday school. Such joy filled her little heart and she must tell her parents of her happiness. This had a profound effect on both. Her father became convicted of sin and begged his wife to pray for him.
“I can’t pray for you,” she told him, “but Julie can.”
“Julie, can you pray for your poor father?” he asked.
“Dear Lord, please save Daddy and Mommie,” prayed the little girl, and that prayer was to be answered.
Her father asked her to read to him and so, led by the Spirit, she turned to John 3. At verse 16 he stopped her. She had read: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
“Is that in the Bible?” he exclaimed. “Read it again.” So she repeated it.
“Oh, Julie,” he said, “that ‘whosoever’ is your poor father.” And with that he took God at His Word and from storm and sorrow he entered into peace and joy. He had been led by his little child into the path of blessing.
That word “whosoever” was for Mary’s mother as well for she too believed in Jesus as her Savior and found peace.
And it is for you too, dear reader. Believe and the blessing shall be yours also.
ML-07/07/1974