THE 6-year-old boy of a minister was sent to the store to get something needed for breakfast. The store keeper, being very busy, let the boy wait quite a bit, but finally found time and waited on him: When he handed the boy the required things, he found the little fellow in tears. “What is the matter with you my dear, are you sick?” “No sir,” was the boy’s timid answer. “but by the time I get back home they will be done with reading God’s word and prayer, and I shall miss it all.” This word from the little boy hit the merchant hard; he, too, had once begun his day’s work with reading God’s word and prayer, but since he was engaged in his present business he had no time for this, as he thought—he forgot the Lord. But the word of this little boy disturbed him so that he could not find rest till he was restored in his soul, to love the Lord, to love His word, and to approach Him in prayer.
Tell me, my dear young reader, have you longings in your heart like this little boy to read God’s word or be where it is read, and where prayer is being offered? Or are you, like some, getting too big to go to Sunday-school, or to be in any place where the Lord and His word is being considered? Think what joy it gives to God to find any down here in this world to love His word, to love His Son, and then too He may use you to help someone else, either saint or sinner.
Messages of God’s Love 3/17/1907