Samuel lived on a farm in Brazil, and one day when a man selling Bibles called at their home, he bought one for himself. He began to read it at once, but was not able to understand what he read.
Although a cripple, this young man would hobble along with the aid of a stick to the neighboring village, taking messages from his father’s homestead. On one such visit he heard a traveling dentist preaching the gospel, and Samuel recognized that much of what he said came out of the Book he was reading. That evening when Samuel returned home he found the passages in his Bible, and, reading them aloud to his family told them what the dentist had said. He continued to read aloud from God’s Word each day, and when in difficulty over what he read, he visited his Christian friend and heard more of the good news of God’s full and free salvation.
Before long Samuel not only realized he was a sinner in God’s sight, but he saw that the Lord Jesus had borne the punishment his sins deserved when He died on the cross, and so he joyfully accepted Christ as his Saviour. Now he was so happy, and dragging himself along with the help of his big stick he would visit the farms and coffee plantations nearby telling others of the precious Saviour he had found.
Dear reader, perhaps you have heard the sweet story of Jesus’ love many, many times, but have you, like Samuel, believed that Jesus loved you and gave Himself for us? If not, now is the time to “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”
ML 05/13/1951