May was just a little girl, but she had learned that the Lord Jesus loved her and she had learned to love Him too. Then one day she was told that a man who often passed their house was an infidel.
“What is an infidel?” inquired May. She was told that an infidel was one who did not believe in God nor the Bible. The little girl was very much surprised.
A few days later when that same man was walking past her house, she came up to him and said, “Why don’t you love Jesus?”
Angrily he pushed her away, but she repeated the question again and again, and then he saw that there were tears in her eyes. That question began to trouble him. He could not get rid of it day or night. It kept coming up to him from the sidewalk, from the letters on his desk, from the voices of his children at play, and even the pillow seemed to whisper it to him after he went to bed.
At last he got up saying, “I will go and get a Bible and find some place where Christ has contradicted Himself, and that will be a good reason why I should not love Him.”
So he took the Book and opened it at the gospel of John. But he had opened at the wrong place, for if anyone wants to find reasons for not loving Christ, he had better not go to that book. As he read, he found out reasons for loving the Son of God instead of hating Him, and before the sun was up, he had begun to seek the Lord with all His heart. Very soon he was converted.
ML-08/07/1977