Read the Scriptures

From: Messages of God's Love: 1968

Mr. R. Knill, an English preacher, years ago, had a dear little boy whom the Lord took home before he was three years old. A workman was glazing some windows at Mr. Knill’s home one day when the little fellow inquired if he could read. The man replied, “Yes.” Then the child gave him a New Testament and told him to consider that striking passage of Scripture, “When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” Matthew 6:6⁶But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. (Matthew 6:6).

The man never forgot the scripture, nor the little boy’s earnestness.

It is said of Timothy “that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” 2 Timothy 3:15¹⁵And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. (2 Timothy 3:15).

ML 01/14/1968