Steve was seven years old when his family visited a farm one summer. He loved to look around and explore. It wasn’t long before he discovered an outside cellar door propped open with a stick. Peering inside, he could see stairs that led down into the cool cellar. Without thinking twice he went down the steps and started exploring the cellar.
Steve was busily looking around when all of a sudden there was a loud bang. The stick had slipped, and the cellar door had shut! He ran up the steps and tried to push up on the door. With his arms over his head he pushed and pushed, but the door was too heavy for him to open. He was really scared now because it was dark, and he wondered how long it would be until someone found him. He started banging on the door and calling for help. “Help!
Help! Get me out of here,” yelled Steve. After what seemed like a long time to Steve, his father heard the banging and yelling. He went to the cellar door and lifted it to let Steve out.
Steve had been trapped and did not have enough strength to free himself. If you do not know the Lord Jesus as your Saviour, you are trapped too, but not in a cellar. Satan has you trapped in your sins and is leading you to an eternity in hell. But God, in His great love to sinners, has provided a way of escape. The Lord Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, suffered on the cross for the sins of everyone who will believe and accept Him as their Saviour. Like Steve, do you know that you are trapped? Just call for help, like Steve did. Steve’s father loved him very much. When his father heard him calling for help, he quickly came and lifted the door to free him. God loves us even more and tells us in the Bible, “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37). God wants you to realize that you are helpless, because you don’t have the strength to save yourself. When you see this, then He can shower His love on you.
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