One day, a man was visiting a school for deaf people who also could not speak. There was a well-behaved little boy in the school who had such a happy face that the man decided to ask him some questions. Writing on a blackboard, he asked, “My boy, you see all the stars and the sun and the earth around you. Can you tell me how they all got there?”
The little boy at once wrote this answer: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” (See Genesis 1:11In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1).)
The man then wrote, “But where did all the misery and death that you see around you come from?”
The man, surprised, wrote, “Can you tell me any way for people to be saved from all
this sorrow?”
Even more surprised, the man wrote, “I will ask you one more question. Can you tell me why you cannot speak or hear, when so many people around you can do both?”
“Even so, Father,” wrote the boy, with a smile, “for so it seemed good in Thy sight.” (See Matthew 11:2626Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. (Matthew 11:26).)
The man was amazed. Here was a little boy who had answered four hard questions in a way that none of the smartest thinkers in the world could, and he was happy, peaceful, and contented in spite of his challenges, because he believed these truths, which he had learned from the Bible. What a precious book the Bible is, where we can learn truths like those that made that little boy so happy because he believed them!
The Bible is full of wonderful things for us. Even if you are a little child, you can understand it. If you love it and read it carefully, asking God to teach you, He will teach you by His Holy Spirit, so you will be able to better understand it and apply it to your own life.
Messages of God’s Love 8/17/2025