A LITTLE boy, who was much concerned lest he should not reach heaven, came to a minister, and earnestly inquired of him the way of salvation. The minister was struck with the child’s eagerness, and after telling him of God’s goodness and readiness to receive the young and old to His rest above, he bade the child run quickly home, and kneel down and pray earnestly to be received, for Christ’s sake. With a mournful voice the little fellow said,
“O! sir, but suppose I should die before I reach home?”
The minister, who felt rebuked at the child’s simple answer, readily caught the lesson God would teach him.
“You are right, you are right, my child,” he said at once, “and I am wrong I ought not to have bidden you go home and pray to be saved, but, as the Scripture, God’s own Word, shows us, I should have told you,
To be assured of salvation was the longing of that simple-hearted child; and God, through the lips of the minister, met his desire. He took the text pointed out to him as God’s own Word, believed it simply, and found rest.
Has our reader this child’s earnestness? and do the words of God, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,” satisfy his heart and set every difficulty at rest?
ML 12/19/1937