Carrie was a pretty little blond-haired four-year-old. Her mother and father, sister and brother, and grandparents all loved her. But there was something wrong with Carrie. As I sat in the hospital room holding her, I wondered if she would ever open her eyes again. She groaned and whimpered as I gently washed her face and put clean pajamas on her.
I was Carrie’s nurse for the night, and later I read on her chart what had happened to her. I felt like crying. Carrie had been a normal baby, then grew to the toddler stage, and then to a little girl. Then one day for some unknown reason she suffered a stroke. Now she was unconscious, her brain had stopped working right, and she lay there helpless. There was not one thing her parents could do, and there was not one thing even the very best doctors in the children’s hospital could do.
Children, as you are reading this do you realize that you have a worse sickness than Carrie has? It is the disease of sin. You know that you have done many naughty things. Just one of those sins is enough to keep you out of heaven, that happy place where Jesus lives. But there is Someone who can save you from the disease of sin. God loves you so much that He sent His only Son to die on the cross for you. Now God is offering to give you free forgiveness from all your sins, through the blood of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no one else who can save you from the disease of sin. Carrie’s condition seems hopeless, but yours is not. There is a remedy for sin. Come to Him today before it is too late.
ML-09/12/1993