“Mother, can I go outside to play for five minutes?” asked Sherry. The little girl had just gotten home from school, and Mother greeted her with a loving smile and a kiss as she walked in the door.
Sherry’s class had an arithmetic test next day, and most of the children had studied for it, but Sherry wasn’t as ready as she might have been.
“Not now, dear,” said Mother. “Learn these few tables first, and then we’ll see.”
Sherry flung herself on the sofa in anger, stomped her foot on the floor and exclaimed, “It’s not fair!” Many other naughty words she said besides.
“Sherry,” said Mother, with a pained look on her face, “I thought my girl knew the Lord Jesus as her Saviour, but many things of late have made me wonder.”
An arrow pierced through Sherry’s heart, and a cloud of gloom settled down on her young mind. A lump formed in her throat and a tear trickled down her cheek. She looked away from Mother. She knew in her heart she had never trusted in the Lord Jesus as her Saviour.
Daddy and mother had often told her the way of salvation, but she had kept putting it off. Sometimes at night she would wake up afraid and would tiptoe into their room to see if they were still there. As long as they were there, she knew the Lord hadn’t come and left her behind. Now she felt the Lord was looking right into her naughty heart and she began to cry.
Mother said to Sherry again, as she had many times before: “Tell the Lord Jesus you are a sinner and want Him as your Saviour. He will wash away all those black sins forever, for He loves you and died for you.”
Mother and Sherry knelt down together, and Sherry told the Lord what a sinner she was, and she asked Him to be her Saviour. The Lord saved Sherry right then and there. Mother prayed too, and thanked Him for saving her little girl.
Tears of joy ran down Sherry’s cheeks as they got up from their knees. She had a smile and a look of peace that reflected the peace that now filled her heart. The burden of sin was gone!
Dear boys and girls, take the Lord Jesus as your Saviour now while you are young. You’ll be glad 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.” Romans 10:9.
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2 Cor. 6:2.
ML-05/08/1977