One morning in December, Mrs. Turner looked out the window at the blowing snow and read the thermometer ... 10° below zero! It was so cold that she shivered even standing indoors. She noticed a little gray dog sitting in a yard up the street and she felt sorry for it because it looked terribly cold.
Later that morning, as Mrs. Turner was leaving home to run an errand, a neighbor, Jill, called to her, “Do you know whose dog this is?”
Jill was carrying the little dog and she said, “His feet look frozen.” But when she set him down, he ran away immediately.
That afternoon, Shelly and Ellen Turner bundled up to walk to the store. What should come over to meet them but the little gray dog. He seemed friendly, and Ellen had no problem catching him. He seemed to enjoy the warmth of her arms as she carried him home to their garage. Although he was wearing a collar, there were no tags on it to tell them to whom he belonged.
Mrs. Turner decided the garage was not warm enough for him to stay in, so she called the animal control center. In a few minutes an officer was there in his van.
The officer walked around to the back door of the garage. How surprised Mrs. Turner was when he greeted the dog with a friendly, “Well hello, George, how are you?” The officer knew George well — he ran away from home often, and this officer was often called to pick him up. George would have to go to the police station even though the officer knew exactly where he lived. Because George ran away from home so often, breaking the law of no loose dogs, he could not go back home until his owners paid for the tickets that had piled up.
Boys and girls, did you know that we all have sinned, and those sins have piled up like George’s tickets? We sometimes sing, “My sins were as high as a mountain.” That is a lot of sins. There is no way we can pay for even one of our sins! However, the Lord Jesus already paid the price for all our sins if we will only believe on Him and accept Him as our Savior. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and [you will] be saved” (Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)). Then there won’t be a mountain of sins against you anymore.
Messages of God’s Love 12/17/2023