As a boy I grew up in a Christian home where the family read the Bible together. All of us children learned the verse, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right” (Ephesians 6:11Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. (Ephesians 6:1)). We knew what the verse meant, but we didn’t always do what it said.
One hot July day, the threshing crew came to our farm to thresh out the oats with a big threshing machine. The oat bundles were picked up by a team of horses pulling a hayrack and brought to the machine. Then the bundles were put into the front of the threshing machine. The grains of oats came out of an auger on the side into a wagon, and the straw was blown through a tube into a big pile.
A neighbor boy and I were chasing each other up and down the straw pile, having a good time. All of a sudden I fell into a hole over my head with the straw falling in on top of me! I shouted for help as loud as I could! At once I saw a hand reaching down for me to grab onto. It was as if it was the hand of God!
What do you think I did? There was no time to waste, and I quickly grabbed that hand and was pulled out.
Dad had warned me not to play in the straw pile because of holes in it. But I didn’t listen to him and played in it anyway. I had disobeyed my Dad, and disobeying is sin.
God used that lesson to make me understand that I was a sinner and needed to have my sins washed away by the blood of Jesus. As a result of that lesson, I accepted the Lord Jesus as my very own Saviour.
What about you? I hope you don’t have to have a scary lesson like I did to understand that you are a sinner and need the Saviour to wash your sins away. Won’t you come to Jesus with your sin problem today? “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)).
ML-07/10/2016