Let me tell you about the grasshopper that got stuck in the rain barrel behind the barn.
I was weeding the garden and stopped for a rest, because it was very warm. After a while, I took the empty water bucket over to the rain barrel to get some water to put on the garden. Lo and behold, there was a grasshopper on top of the water trying his very best to hop out of the water he was floating in. His legs kept trying to hop, but he wasn’t going anywhere.
As I watched him, I knew what would happen. Soon that hopper would get tired and just drown and go right down to the bottom! So, should I help him or not?
Well, when I was 14 years old, God saved me from going down to hell. He looked down from heaven and saw me lost in sin, and He gave me this beautiful verse from the Bible: “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)). I believed it and was saved! The Bible tells us what the Lord Jesus said to a man named Nicodemus. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)). Nicodemus believed that the word “whosoever” meant him, and he believed what Jesus said and was saved too.
I actually felt sorry for that hopper, so I gently put my hand underneath him. As soon as he felt my hand, he gave a mighty shove with those legs, and out he jumped! Boy, was he glad to be free! One moment ready to drown, and the next moment he was FREE!
Children, are you ready for heaven? Are you free from your sins? That grasshopper doesn’t know who set him free, but I not only know who set me free, but “He brought me up also out of a horrible pit . . . set my feet upon a Rock . . . and He hath put a new song in my mouth” (Psalm 40:2-32He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. (Psalm 40:2‑3)). Boys and girls, will you trust the Lord Jesus Christ today and be set free from your sins?
ML-04/09/2017