Have you ever climbed a tree? I watched Eddie climb our tree. He loves to do this just for fun, and he can scramble up fairly quickly.
It reminded me of a man in the Bible who once climbed a tree. His name was Zacchaeus, and he was a short little man. He climbed a tree for a different reason than Eddie does. Zacchaeus wanted to see Jesus, who was coming along the road in the middle of a crowd of people.
But when Jesus came by the tree where Zacchaeus was sitting, He looked up at him and said, “Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for today I must abide at thy house.” And he did just what Jesus told him to do.
Zacchaeus was a sinner, just like you and me. But before the day was over, Jesus said to him that salvation had come to him. This meant that Jesus had forgiven all his sins and someday he would go to heaven to live with Jesus.
Boys and girls, Jesus knows all about your sins, but He wants you to come to Him. He is calling you just like He called Zacchaeus. He loves you and wants to come into your heart and live with you until He takes you home to heaven. Won’t you tell Him right now that you are a sinner and would like Him to be your Saviour? He wants to forgive your sins, just like He forgave Zacchaeus’s sins. “I [Jesus] will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more” (Jeremiah 31:3434And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (Jeremiah 31:34)).
ML-05/24/2009