GEORGINA was a young Mexican girl. Her godly grandmother had taken her to Sunday school and Georgina had accepted the Lord Jesus as her Saviour. Soon after she had a deep desire to be baptized and to make a public stand for her Lord. Her unbelieving father warned her that if she took such a step he would put her out of the house.
One day Georgina attended a baptismal service. During the meeting when others were being baptized, she stepped forward and told the brother who was doing the baptizing that she too wanted to be baptized. The brother was quite surprised as he knew her father and mother were opposed to her taking this step. But Georgina said, “I know that it will please the Lord Jesus, and I want you to baize me.”
When she went home that evening she told her father what had happened. It was quite a shock at first. He asked her, “Who told you to be baptized?” “No one told me,” she replied; “but God told me.”
Quite surprisingly her father said, “I don’t approve of what you have done, but you have made a contract. Now you must keep it.” And from then on he never showed any anger toward her for what she had done, but seemed to accept it as a token of her faith and courage.
ML-08/18/1963