Willie was an interesting little fellow between five and six years old. One day he was taken by his Aunt for a journey by train, and another lady in the same coach made friends with him. After a while she asked him what he intended be when he grew up.
“O,” he said, “I will be a minister.”
And what verse are you going preach from?” she asked.
“I will preach from ‘For God loved the world that He gave only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, have everlasting life.’” answered Willie.
This verse was haning, on the wall of his nursery, and the dear child was very fond of it. Better still, he knew the Lord Jesus as his own precious Saviour, and so he had everlasting life. This wonderful verse tells so powerfully of God’s great love to this poor world. It takes in everybody from the smallest child to the biggest man; for each one forms a part of the world. O, that ALL would accept Him as their own Saviour!
Just think hove great must have been that love which led God to give the choicest treasure which He possessed, even “His only begotten Son,” and that for such sinners as we are. Would you not like to trust in that precious Saviour, the Son of God? It is joy to know Him, and it is only He who can give us everlasting life.
Willie is now grown up, but I know he would tell you, if he could see you, that the same love of God which gave him to trust in the Lord Jesus when he was a little boy, has never grown weary of him, but has watched over him, all through his life. He is loong, forward to the time when he, with all those who, by trusting in the Lord Jesus, have everlasting life, will be in the Father’s beautiful house, as the Lord Jesus said when He was down here,
“In My Father’s house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14:2, 32In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:2‑3).
ML 08/11/1946