I think that most grandpas and grandmas would agree with me that spending time with grandchildren is special. When we go to visit our grandchildren who live far away, we like to do special things together with them. My young granddaughter Heather and I love to go to a cute, little coffee shop nearby early in the morning. She gets hot chocolate and I have a good cup of coffee. We usually share a large cinnamon roll or a yummy muffin. This little coffee shop has a fireplace with big, soft chairs on each side, and that is our favorite place to sit and chat together. We talk about lots of things and have such a good time.
Last winter while we were visiting our family, Heather and I went to our favorite little shop. I paid for our food while Heather went to save the soft chairs by the fireplace. As we sat down and gave thanks to the Lord for our food, an old lady sitting across from us started right in talking nonstop to us. She told us she was ninety-six years old and came in every day for her coffee. I imagine she was lonely and talked to everyone, but we were disappointed because we were not able to have our own private conversation. However, we wanted to be polite to her, and she began to tell us a story.
There was a man who came into the coffee shop every day on his way to work, and he always asked her to go to church with him. She told him that she was of a different religion and did not really want to go. He just would not take “no” for an answer, so finally she decided that he must have a good reason to keep asking, and she went with him.
She said to us, “I had gone to church all my life, and I never knew who God was. I met Him face to face through His Son Jesus, and now He is with me all the time. I’m not lonely anymore.”
We were so glad to hear this old lady’s confession of the Lord Jesus. She is very close to the end of her life, yet it was not too late for her to accept Him as her Saviour. “Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts” (Hebrews 4:7).
Heather and I were very glad that we had been kind to the old lady in listening to her story. It is an old, old story of Jesus and His love, but it never gets boring. In fact, it is very exciting to meet others who love Him and will spend eternity together with us in heaven. When we have accepted the Lord Jesus as our own personal Saviour, it is important to tell others about what He has done for us, just as this old lady did. Even though Heather and I both love the Lord Jesus too, we were so cheered when we left. We had smiles on our faces as we walked to our car.
If you have not met Jesus Christ, do not wait until it is too late for you. You may not live to be ninety-six; you may not live to see tomorrow. He loves you so much that He died for you. Meet Him today and confess Him as your Lord and Saviour. You will never be sorry you did. “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).
ML-07/27/2003