We had collected a lot of children from the city streets in the gospel buses that day. Now several hundred poor, needy boys and girls sat listening to the story of how Jesus came into the world to die for our sins and to rise again from the dead. They needed to hear that this is how God has opened the way for us to go to heaven.
At the end of his talk to the children, the speaker held up a shiny silver dollar and said, “Whosoever believes, let him come and take it.” Then he put the silver dollar under a book on the table.
He waited. The children looked at each other. They were all “whosoevers,” but the only “whosoever believes” was one shy little boy. He came up to the speaker’s table, hesitated and then took the silver dollar from under the book and said, “Thank you, sir.”
“What’s your name?” asked the speaker.
“Chuckie.”
“I did not say that Chuckie could have the money.”
“No, sir,” answered the half-frightened little boy. “You said ‘whosoever’ ... and that means me!”
Chuckie was exactly right! We are all whosoevers, but are you a whosoever who believes? “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)). “Through His [Jesus’] name whosoever believeth in Him shall receive remission of sins” (Acts 10:4343To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. (Acts 10:43)).
Will you be a whosoever who believes?
ML-07/19/2015