Dave had asked the Farrells to pray for his friend Anne who was not saved. Anne was a friendly person and very nice. The Farrells were glad to pray for her. They usually prayed as a family, including their little boy Steve who was four years old.
Little Steve loved the Lord Jesus. As small as he was he repeated his verse in Sunday school and loved to sing the hymns, too. Steve had often told his parents that he was saved and would go to heaven because the Lord Jesus had died for him, too.
Steve’s mother suggested that they invite Dave and Anne for dinner one evening. (The Bible tells us in 1 Timothy 3:2 That we should be “given to hospitality.") The young couple was happy to come.
After dinner and a Bible reading Steve went over to Anne and asked, “Why aren’t you saved? Don’t you want to go to heaven with us when the Lord Jesus comes back?”
Anne looked down into that little face and found herself giving an embarrassed giggle, and then she said, “Oh, I don’t know.”
Little Steve, still looking up at her, said in a very serious voice, “It isn’t funny. You shouldn’t laugh because you could go to hell if you’re not saved.”
We know that in 2 Peter 3:33Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, (2 Peter 3:3) we are warned “that there shall come in the last days scoffers.” These are people who make fun of the Bible and laugh at its wonderful words!
With tears in her eyes Anne reached down and hugged that serious little boy. Although she did not accept the Lord Jesus as her Saviour that night, what little Steve had said made her think very seriously about being saved.
Sometimes in Sunday school we sing:
I will make you fishers of men,
If you follow Me.
In the Bible in Matthew chapter 4, we read how the Lord Jesus found Peter and Andrew fishing. He called them and said, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” verse 19. From that time on, Peter and Andrew “fished” for men by telling them about the Lord Jesus and His love for them.
We can be fishermen for the Lord Jesus today too, and little Steve was being a good fisherman when he talked to Anne about the Lord Jesus.
Some time later the telephone rang and Mother told Steve that the-call was for him.
The voice said, “Steve, this is Anne, the lady who had dinner at your house some time ago. I called to tell you that today I received the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour and I wanted you to be the first one to know about it. So now when the Lord Jesus comes we will both be taken to heaven. I want to thank you, Steve, for praying for me.”
Wasn’t that a nice telephone call for a little boy to receive! Steve and his family were so happy to hear the good news and they thanked the Lord Jesus for answering their prayers.
ML-08/21/1988