Five-year-old Ben was playing with the neighbor boys. He looked up and saw a very bright rainbow in the sky. It was so bright that it was a double rainbow - there was a second one over it.
Ben pointed it out to his friends and said, “God loves me!” Then he added, “I love Jesus. Do you love Jesus?”
They said, “No!”
Ben repeated, “I love Jesus!”
Dear little Ben had learned the wonderful fact that God loves him. Maybe he knows the verse that says, “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)). God showed His love by sending the Lord Jesus Christ to die on the cross to put away our sins.
It is so sad that there are boys and girls even in what are called Christian countries that do not know about God. They do not know that He loves them and sent His Son Jesus to die for them.
Some of you who read this may know that God loves you. But can you honestly say, “I love Jesus”? It is very important to believe in Him yourself. Are you able to say with your mouth, “I know Jesus is the Lord”? Can you say, “I know God raised Him from the dead”? If you can say that from your heart, God says you are saved. “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 10:99That 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)).
The Bible tells us that someday the Lord Jesus will take everyone who is saved to heaven, and the people who do not love Him will be left behind for judgment. So do not wait. Come to Jesus; receive Him as your Saviour right now, and He will take you to heaven when He comes.
Then He wants you to tell others that you love Jesus, as Ben did. Ben was not preaching; he was just telling his friends what he knew and believed. He told them what Jesus meant to him.
ML-01/26/2003