A PREACHER was once telling God’s message of love to a group of children.
“I have never seen you before,” he said, “but, children, I can tell you your names.” Immediately they were all attentive. “Your name,” he continued, addressing a girl on the front seat, “your name is here.” He held up his Bible. “Your name is S-I-N-N-E-R, for God says ‘All have sinned.’ "
When the service concluded, the girl ran straight home to her father who was a hardened old sinner. Breathlessly she said, “Father, I can tell you God’s name for you, for it is in the Bible!”
“Nonsense,” he replied.
“But it is, Father,” persisted the child.
“What is it, then?” he asked.
“It is ‘sinner’ for God says that ‘all have sinned': the preacher told us about it.”
Although the man was a hard old sinner, God used his daughter’s message. It went as an arrow to his heart and like the prodigal son long ago, he acknowledged, “I have sinned.” Luke 15:2121And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. (Luke 15:21).
Through God’s boundless grace he accepted the Lord Jesus as his Saviour. His sins were all put away by virtue of the atoning blood of Jesus Christ which “cleanses us from all sin.”
Your name is in the Bible! it is SINNER. But like that father you can be saved if you acknowledge that you are lost and take the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour. Won’t you do it now?
ML-04/29/1962