WHAT’S WRONG, Bobbie?” asked Mother one day. “You have been looking so sad lately! Are you not well?” Mother looked into his eyes and put her hand on his forehead.
Bobbie shrugged his shoulders, “Oh, I’m alright I guess.” But Mother knew better. She would not let her little boy go until he told her his troubles.
“I—I—I—want to be saved,” stuttered young Bobbie, “but I don’t know how.”
Mother quickly reached for her Bible. She turned the pages until she came to 1 Peter 3:18.
“Can you read this for me?” she said.
“Christ-also-hath-once-suffered-for sins,-the-Just-for-the-unjust,-that-He might-bring-us-to-God.” Bobbie read it slowly but very well.
“Do you know what the word ‘Just’ in this verse means?” asked Mother. “It means some One who has never done anything wrong — One who is not a sinner. The unjust are those who are always doing wrong things — they are always sinning. Now, Bobbie, who is the Just One?”
“Oh, I know, of course it’s Jesus.” “And what about the unjust ones? Are you one of them?”
Bobbie hung his head, “I guess so,” he said.
“Don’t you know, Son?”
“Yes I am, Mom,” he answered.
“Then Jesus suffered and died for you, didn’t He? Look at the verse again. It says — ‘that He might bring us to God.’ Who are the Us I wonder? Does that mean you too?’
Bobbie looked hard at the verse, then he thought for a little while.
“I see it all now,” he said, “I’m not left out! I am one of the UN. JUST ONES, and I am one of the US too.”
That day Bobbie’s sorrows turned into joy because NOW Jesus was His Saviour.
Would you like to know how Bobbie signed his name in his new Bible? Here it is.
BOBBIE BROWN
JESUS—FOR—ME
“THE JUST FOR THE UNJUST”
ML-07/01/1962