WHAM! The baseball bat sent the golf ball bouncing across the backyard and into the bushes at the edge of the trees. Russ and Lee had decided to play golf, but since they were very young, they had no golf clubs and were using their baseball bats instead. They had set up a three-hole course and had been having fun, until they lost the ball in the bushes.
“I can’t find it,” said Lee, smacking the tall grass and weeds with his bat as he looked for it.
Russ went into the high weeds a little farther to look under some bushes. All of a sudden he let out a yell and came racing back into the yard toward the house with Lee following close behind! He had stepped on a yellow jackets’ nest, and the angry wasps came swarming out, stinging both boys quite badly.
Mom comforted the boys, put medicine on their stings, and cautioned them to stay away from the nest.
When the boys were feeling a little better, they were looking over their stings and grumbling about those yellow jackets. Lee had more stings because he was younger and hadn’t been able to run away as fast as Russ. “We ought to get rid of that nest,” said Russ. Lee agreed. They thought they could destroy the nest if they hit it really hard with their bats.
Soon they were back in the bushes and had found the nest again. Lee stooped down to get a better look at it just as Russ swung his metal bat at the nest. He missed the nest, but as the bat swung up it hit Lee just below his eyebrow.
Blood was everywhere! The boys came screaming back to Mom. She cleaned up Lee the best she could and drove him quickly to the medical center. The doctor sewed up the wound with 18 tiny stitches, took X-rays of Lee’s head, and gave him a tetanus shot.
Poor Lee was in sorry shape. He was covered with wasp stings and now had a bandage around his head and everything hurt. He thought he might even die! And what would happen to him then, he wondered. He knew he had not asked the Lord Jesus to save him from his sins as he should have. He felt sure he wouldn’t go to heaven if he died. Even though he was just a young boy, he was very concerned about his soul. God tells us “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10). And Lee was afraid he might have to meet God in his sins. He knew he would have to be punished for them in that awful place called hell. And that would be forever! But he also knew the Lord Jesus loved him very much and wanted to wash his sins away and be his Savior. Then he could live with Jesus in heaven. Lee didn’t wait any longer to accept the Lord Jesus as his Savior. He settled the matter right then and there!
I hope you will accept Him as your Savior too, right now!
“If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Romans 10:9).
ML-04/16/2017