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The Littlest Angel

(You will need tissues.)

Every Sunday afternoon, after the morning service at their
church, the Pastor and his 11-year-old son would go out
into their town and hand out Gospel tracts. This particular
Sunday afternoon, as it came time for the Pastor and his son
to go to the streets with their tracts, it was very cold out-
side as well as pouring down rain. The boy bundled up in his
warmest and driest clothes and said "Okay Dad, I'm ready."
 
His Pastor Dad asked, "Ready for what?"

"Dad, it's time we gather our tracts together and go out."

Dad responds, "Son, it's very cold outside and it's pouring
down rain."

The boy gives his Dad a surprised look, asking, "But Dad,
aren't people still going to Hell, even though it's raining?"

Dad answers, "Son, I am not going out in this weather."

Despondently the boy asks, "Dad, can I go -- Please?"

His father hesitated for a moment then said, "Son, you can
go. Here's the tracts, be careful son."

"Thanks, Dad!" And with that he was off and out into the
rain.

This 11-year-old boy walked the streets of the town going
door-to-door and handing everybody he met in the street a
Gospel tract. After 2 hours of walking in the rain he was
soaking bone-chilled wet and down to his very last tract.
He stopped on a corner and looked for someone to hand a
tract to but the streets were totally deserted.

Then he turned toward the first home he saw and started up
the sidewalk to the front door and rang the door bell. He
rang the bell -- but nobody answered. He rang it again and
again bit still no one answered. He waited but still no
answer.

Finally this 11-year-old trooper turned to leave but some-
thing stopped him. Again, he turned to the door and rang
the bell and knocked loudly on the door with his fist. He
waited, something holding him there on the front porch. He
rang again, and this time the door slowly opened. Standing
in the doorway was a very sad looking elderly lady.

She softly asked, "What can I do for you, son?"

With radiant eyes and a smile that lit up her world, this
little boy said, "Ma'am, I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but
I just want to tell you that JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU! I
came to give you my very last Gospel tract which will tell
you all about Jesus and His great love."

With that he handed her his last tract, and turned to leave.
She called to him as he departed, "Thank you, son! And God
bless you!"

The following Sunday morning in church, Pastor Dad was
in the pulpit and as the service began he asked, "Does
anybody have a testimony or want to say anything?"

Slowly, in the back row of the church, an elderly lady
stood to her feet. As she began to speak, a look of glorious
radiance came from her face.

"None of you in this church know me. I've never been here
before. You see, before last Sunday I was not a Christian.
My husband has passed on, some time ago, leaving me totally
alone in this world. Last Sunday, being a particularly cold
and rainy day, it was even more so in my heart . . . as I
came to the end of the line where I no longer had any hope
or will to live.

"So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into
the attic of my home. I fastened the rope securely to a rafter
in the roof then stood on the chair and fastened the other
end of the rope around my neck.

"Standing on that chair, so lonely and brokenhearted, I was
about to leap off when suddenly the loud ringing of my door-
bell downstairs startled me. I thought, 'I'll wait a minute,
and whoever it is will go away.'

"I waited and waited -- but the ringing doorbell seemed to
get louder and more insistent and then the person ringing
also started knocking loudly. I thought to myself again,
'Who on earth could this be?! Nobody ever rings my bell or
comes to see me!'

"I loosened the rope from my neck and started for the front
door, all the while the bell rang louder and louder. When
I opened the door and looked I could hardly believe my eyes!

"There on my front porch was the most radiant and angelic
little boy I had ever seen in my life! His smile! Oh, I
could never describe it to you! And the words that came
from his mouth caused my heart, that had long been dead,
to leap to life as he exclaimed with cherub-like voice,
'Ma'am, I just came to tell you that JESUS REALLY DOES
LOVE YOU.'

"Then he gave me this Gospel tract that I now hold in my
hand. As the little angel disappeared back out, into the
cold and rain, I closed my door and read slowly every word
of this Gospel tract. Then I went up to my attic to get my
rope and chair. I wouldn't be needing them any more."

"You see, I am now a happy child of the KING, and since
the address of your church was on the back of this Gospel
tract I have come here to personally say, 'Thank you to
God's little angel who came just in the nick of time, and
by so doing, spared my soul from an eternity in Hell.'"
 
There were now no dry eyes in the church.

As shouts of praise and honor to the KING resounded off
the very rafters of the building, Pastor Dad descended
from the pulpit to the front pew where the little angel
was seated. He took him in his arms and sobbed uncontrollably.

Probably no church has had a more glorious moment and
probably this Universe has never seen a Papa that was more
filled with love and honor for his son, except for one:
This Father, God, also allowed His Son, Jesus, to go out
into a cold and dark world. He received His Son back with
joy unspeakable, and as all of Heaven shouted praises and
honor to the King, the Father sat His beloved Son on a
throne far above all principality and power and every name
that is named.

There may be someone, reading this, who is also going
through a dark, cold and lonely time in your soul. You may
be a Christian, for we are not without problems, or you may
not yet know the King. Whatever the case, and whatever the
problem or situation you find yourself in, and no matter how
dark it may seem, I want you to know that I just came to tell
you, "JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU";

"'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world
to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does
not believe stands condemned already because he has not
believed in the name of God's one and only Son.'"
John 3:16-18 (NIV)

 

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