How would you like to live with a guilty feeling for over 46 years? That is what happened to Arthur. And it was just over some crackers with peanut butter!
Arthur was in first grade when this story happened. Like many children used to do, he liked to take a snack to school. One day Arthur’s mother gave him some crackers with peanut butter to take to school. For safe keeping, Arthur gave them to his teacher. Later that morning when Arthur was ready for his snack, he found that it had disappeared ... right from the teacher’s desk. Someone had taken the crackers!
Arthur’s teacher told him to do a foolish thing. She told him to smell the breath of each of his classmates to decide who could have eaten the peanut butter and crackers. Arthur felt he had to accuse someone, so he named Sally, even though he did not think she had eaten them.
Poor Sally was so upset that she cried and cried and was unable to come back to school for several days. Arthur said that 46 years later he could still picture Sally’s face in front of him as though it were yesterday. So, after 46 years of feeling guilty, he placed an ad in a large newspaper asking Sally to forgive him. He hoped that she would see the ad.
Many people today are just like Arthur. They know that they are sinners and “hope” that God will forgive them. What they need to know is that God has already provided a way so they can be forgiven. It is by confessing our need of a Savior and accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as the only way to be saved. “What must I do to be saved? ... Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:30-3130And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:30‑31)).
Messages of God’s Love 4/11/2021