Little Robert believes in Jesus with his whole heart, and goes about the house singing,
"Jesus loves me."
Robert was told that a neighbor was dead. After thinking for a while, said,
"I will see him in heaven." I asked him to tell me who were going to heaven. He replied,
"Every body in this whole world,"—he paused and I waited, and he added,—"who believes in Jesus." I thanked God right there, for I believed the Lord told him how to finish his sentence. I was anxious to find out where he stood in regard to this matter. Robert's grandfather had died, and he was a believer in the Lord Jesus. Robert loved him dearly. He had said to his father,
"We will put grandfather in a deep hole in the ground, won't we?" His father told him they would. Robert went on, saying,
"But grandfather is up in heaven with Jesus, is he not?" His father answered-, "Yes." He replied,
"I thought so." Later, he asked how grandfather could he in heaven with Jesus, and be in the grave too? He was told,
“Grandfather’s body is in the grave, but grandfather is with Jesus.” He asked how he got out of the body. I told him,
“God took him out of his body, and took him up to be with Himself till He raises his body out of the grave, then He will unite grandfather’s spirit and soul, with his body from the grave, and then grandfather will be with Jesus in body, soul and spirit, for eternity.” He further asked,
“How is God going to take grandfather’s body out of the grave?” I told him,
“God will take him out, just as He took Jesus’ body out of His grave.” He replied,
“O, I see,” and seemed satisfied.
One day Robert was talking of Adam and Eve eating of the forbidden tree. He remarked,
“That must have been ‘The Devil’s Tree?’” I asked him “Why.” He said,
“Because it made Adam and Eve sinners.”
I explained to him that God had told them not to eat of that tree, but they disobeyed God, and did eat of it,—it was this disobedience to God that made them sinners.
I hope all of our dear little friends have the same desire that little Robert has, to learn about Jesus, and seek to understand God’s precious Word, while you are young. May it be said of you,
Messages of God’s Love 7/3/1932