“Please—won’t you tell me how to be saved today? I just can’t wait until tomorrow!”
Tears were running down Doris’ cheeks as she anxiously waited for her Bible-school teacher’s answer.
“Why, yes, Doris! I’ll be so glad to tell you today. Aren’t we invited to your house for dinner? Let’s talk about it together then.”
This was just the second day of Daily Vacation Bible School. The first day their Bible lesson had been about sin and Satan, and Doris had learned for the first time that she was a sinner in the sight of a holy God. Today’s lesson had been a dreadful one to Doris, for it had been about punishment for sin. Hell was awful, and real, and Doris knew that she deserved to go there, for she had disobeyed many of God’s commands.
Tomorrow’s lesson was to be about God’s plan of salvation for sinners, but Doris absolutely could not wait that long to know how she could be forgiven.
After Bible school the teacher walked home with Doris. Doris’ home was on a hill surrounded by lovely pine trees. In the barn there was a family of dear little baby kittens that they admired, and then it was time for dinner. After dinner Doris took a blanket out of doors and spread it under one of the pine trees. She had her Bible and was all ready.
“Now, tell me how I can be saved!” she said earnestly.
Then Doris’ teacher told her that God knew that there was no way Doris could help herself to become saved. He has said, “Not by works, lest any man should boast.” God loved her so much that He sent His only begotten Son to take the punishment she deserved by dying on the cross for her. All that was left for Doris to do was to receive the Lord Jesus into her heart and life, believing that He had died for her.
There were tears again in Doris’ eyes as she bowed her head and thanked the Lord Jesus for dying for her. Then she simply told Him that she was receiving Him as her Savior. When she looked up again a rainbow smile seemed to be shining through her tears, for she knew she had been forgiven!
A few nights later all the boys and girls had a campfire supper, and afterward, after they had sung some choruses, Doris told them how she had been saved. It was hard for her to do, for she was a bashful girl. But after that she told many others, and soon everyone knew that she belonged to the Lord Jesus.
No one else in Doris’ family was saved, and they began to watch her carefully to see if she were any different, and if she really did love the Lord. Before long her mother called the Bible teacher on the phone and said, “I wish you would tell Doris that she doesn’t have to spend so much time reading her Bible and praying! She is not very strong, and I’m afraid that it is too much for her with her school work!”
But Doris did not feel it was “work” to read her Bible. She read it whenever she found time because she loved it and wanted to find out all that God had to tell her in His Book.
A few years later the Bible teacher, now in another city, heard that Doris had died. Doris had been a Christian only a few short years, and she was just a child, but the wonderful news came, too, that Doris had won her mother, and several other people, to the Lord Jesus!
Boys and girls, don’t wait until tomorrow if God is speaking to your heart. We do not know how many “tomorrows” anyone of us will have. It is time to be saved now!