A badly wounded young soldier was brought into the hospital. The doctors and nurses connected him up to several life-saving machines, but still they were not sure that he would live.
When the doctors had left, the soldier turned to the roommate in the next bed and asked, “Do you know anything about religion?”
“Sorry, buddy, I don’t,” was his reply, “but there’s a lady who comes here every Thursday giving out tracts. She’ll be able to tell you what you want to know.”
“I might be dead by then,” said the soldier.
“Could I come in on that?” asked the wounded man.
“You can try,” said the roommate encouragingly.
The dying soldier pulled the sheet up over his face and began to pray, and he ended with these words: “Suffer . . . the children . . . to come.”
The sheet did not come down. After repeating these words spoken by the Son of God, he died.
Later, the chaplain told of the incident at an officers’ mess hall. One of the officers asked him privately, “Tell me, chaplain, do you think that dying soldier had a chance?”
“No,” replied the chaplain, “he didn’t have a chance; he had a CERTAINTY! He came by faith to the One who said, ‘Him that cometh to Me I will in no [way] cast out’ (John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37)).”
Have you come to Jesus in simple faith, just as a little child would?
ML-08/19/2007