I remember hearing of a Sunday school teacher who had led every one of her pupils to Christ. She was a faithful teacher. Then she tried to get her children to go out and bring other children into the school.
One day one of the children came and said she had been trying to get the children of a family to come to the school, but the father was an atheist, and he wouldn't allow it. “What is an atheist?” asked the child. She had never heard of one before.
The teacher went on to tell her, and she was perfectly shocked.
A few mornings after, the girl happened to be going past the post office on her way to school, and she saw the father coming out. She went up to him and said, “Why don’t you love Jesus?”
If it had been a man who had said that to him, he would probably have knocked him down. He looked at her and walked on. A second time she put the question, “Why don’t you love Jesus?” He put out his hand to move her gently away from him, but looking down, he saw her tears.
“Please, sir, tell me why you don’t love Jesus?” He pushed her aside and away he went.
When he got to his office, the man couldn’t get this question out of his mind. “Why don’t you love Jesus? Why don’t you love Jesus? Why don’t you love Jesus?” Everywhere he went, a voice continually asked him, “Why don’t you love Jesus?”
He thought that when night came and he got home with his family, he would forget it, but he couldn’t. He complained that he wasn’t well and went to bed. But when he laid his head on the pillow, that voice kept whispering, “Why don’t you love Jesus?” He couldn’t sleep.
By and by, at about midnight, he got up and said, “I will get a Bible and find where Christ contradicts himself, and then I’ll have a reason,” and he turned to the book of John. My friends, if you want a reason for not loving Christ, don’t turn to John. He knew Him too long. (I don’t believe a man can read the gospel of John without being turned to Christ.) Well, he read through and found no reason why he shouldn’t love Jesus, but he found many reasons why he should. He read this book, and before morning he was on his knees, and the question put by that little child led to his conversion.