KEODI WAS a tiny little African girl. When she was just four years old she was sold as a slave. She did not know what love was. Her name, Keodi, meant “Nobody loves me.”
When she was ten years old, Keodi got sick and her body was covered with ugly sores. Her master did not want her any longer and turned her out. The natives would not have anything to do with her either, so the poor little girl wandered about homeless, hungry, and uncared for. Then some kind missionaries found Keodi. They took her into their home, got her cleaned up, bandaged her sores, and put clean clothes on her. She could not believe that someone loved her. She went about saying, “I am Keodi. Nobody loves me.”
The missionaries told her about the Lord Jesus, how that He loved her and that He had died for her sins upon the cross. They told her too that they loved her, because His love was in their hearts. Little Keodi looked at her dress, her bandages, and asked, “Is this love?” They told her it was.
Boys and girls who love the Lord Jesus can show the love of God to others-your friends, your schoolmates, by being kind to them and point them to the Saviour.
ML-12/04/1966