Little ten-year old Mary had learned to know the Lord Jesus Christ and to love Him as her Savior. When she was told that a certain man, a neighbor, was an infidel, she inquired, "What is an infidel?”
It was explained to her and she seemed incredulous that the Son of God could be so discounted. A few days later she saw the man walking down the street. Running up to him she asked, "Why don't you love Jesus?”
He pushed her away; but she repeated the question again and again, and he saw that there were tears in her eyes. At last she left him, but that question remained to trouble him. He could not get rid of it day or night. It came up to him from the sidewalk, from the rustle of the letters on his desk, from the voices of his children at play, and his pillow whispered it to him after he went to bed. He could not sleep, and at last he got up.
“I will get the Bible and find some place where Christ contradicts Himself. That will be a good reason why I should not love Him." Thus he reasoned.
So he took the Book and opened it at the Gospel of John. He had opened at the wrong place! If one seeks a reason for not loving Christ he should not go to that Book. It is filled with reasons for loving the Son of God and not one is there for hating Him. Before the morning sun arose he had begun to seek the Lord with all his heart; and soon he could say with Thomas: "My Lord and my God.”