I want to say a little to you today about some “little things” spoken of in the bible, for I know little children often like to hear about little things.
The first little thing I want to speak about is a little girl. Open your bible and read the 5th chapter of the 2nd book of Kings. It tells of a very rich and honorable man, who had many servants in his house, and one of them was a little girl who had been taken captive out of the land of Israel. One day this great man, whose name was Naaman, took sick. The disease he had was one that no doctor could cure, it was leprosy.
What was he to do? All the doctors in the world could do him no good, but one day this little girl said to Naaman’s wife that if he were in Samaria there was a Prophet of God there that could cure him of his leprosy. He perhaps never would have known-about this Prophet if this little girl had not spoken of him. So Naaman got his servants and his horses and his chariot ready, and took a lot of money with him and went to see the Prophet. He expected he would have to pay the Prophet if he made him well, but when he came to his house the Prophet sent out a servant who told him to go and wash himself seven times in the river Jordan and he would be made well. At first he was angry and did not want to go but his servant said to him “if the Prophet had bid thee do some great thing wouldst thou not have done it?” So at last he went and dipped himself seven times and he was made well. This little girl did a great deal of good for Naaman, and I don’t think he could ever forget it. God wants us to learn a lesson from this story.
Leprosy is a picture of sin. The bible tells us we are all born in sin and that we all have sinned. There is no one who can cure us of that awful disease of sin but Jesus. He is the Great Physician. If you believe on Jesus as your own Saviour then His precious blood that was shed on Calvary washes all your sins away and you are made whiter than snow and fit for the presence of God and by and by Jesus will take you to be with Himself forever.
The second little thing, you will find in the 3rd chapter of James. It is a little tongue, and with this little tongue a great deal of evil may be done. Little children sometimes use the tongue to tell lies, to speak angry, to say naughty things. God hears everything you say, and how it grieves Him to hear children speaking in such a way. The bible tells us in the 12Th chapter of Matthew “that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.” But when children use the little tongue to speak the truth it is well pleasing to God. The little girl in Naaman’s house used her tongue to tell of what God could do through His Prophet, and see how much good it did. So if children who love the Lord Jesus would tell others about Him, a great deal of good might be done. And those who love the Lord Jesus love to speak of Him. Try, dear children, and never use the little tongue in a way that would be grieving to God.
You will find one more little thing in the 10th chapter of Hebrews and the 37th verse. It is “a little while.” In a little while the Lord Jesus will come again. He will raise out of the graves the bodies of all those who have died, believing in Him as their Saviour, and He will call all those who are alive, and believe, to meet Him on the cloud and then they will be forever with Him. But oh, what a solemn thing it will be for those who have rejected Christ and are left behind. There will be no chance for them ever to be saved.
If any children who read this paper will believe in Jesus as their Saviour NOW, if Jesus were to come today He would take them to be forever with Him.
My prayer for all the little ones that read this paper is that they will be among that number who will rise to meet the Lord when He comes, and spend their eternity with Him. E. B. H.
ML 05/07/1899