The Pastor and His Son
Every Sunday afternoon, after the morning
service at the church,the Pastor and his eleven-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 outside,as well as pouring
down rain.
The boy bundled up in his warmest and driest
clothes and said, "OK,Dad,I'm ready."
His Pastor dad asked,"Ready for what?"
"Dad,it's time we gather our tracts together
and go out."Dad responded,"Son,it's very
cold outside and it's pouring down rain."
The boy gave his dad a surprised look,asking,
"But Dad,aren't people still going to Hell,even
though it's raining?"
Dad answered,"Son, I am not going out in
this weather." Despondently,the boy asked,
"Dad, can I go? Please?"
His father hesitated for a moment then said,
"Okay,you can go.Here are the tracts.Be
careful,Son." "Thanks, Dad!" And with that,
he was off and out into the rain.This eleven-
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
two 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 but nobody answered.
He rang it again and again,but still no one
answered.He waited but still no answer. Finally,
this eleven-year-old trooper turned to leave,but something stopped him.Again,he turned to the
door and rang the bell and knocked loudly on
the door with his fist.He waited; something
seemed to be holding him there on the front
porch! He rang the doorbell 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,and 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!"
Well,the following Sunday morning in church
Pastor dad was in the pulpit.As the service began,
he asked,"Does anybody have a testimony or
wantto 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,"No one in this church knows
me.I've never been here before.You see,before
last Sunday I was not a Christian.My husband
passed on sometime 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 that 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 doorbell 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 longer and the knocking on the door continued insistently.When I opened the door
and looked,I could hardly believe my eyes,for
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!
"The words that came from his mouth caused
my heart that had long been dead,to leap to life
as he exclaimed with a cherub-like voice,
'Ma'am,I just came to tell you that JESUS
REALLYDOES 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 anymore."You see,
I am now a happy child of the King.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 was not a dry eye in the church.And 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 his
son 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.
Our Father also allowed His Son 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.
Blessed are your eyes for reading this message.
Don't let this message die,read it again and pass
it to others.
Heaven is for His people!
Remember,God's message can make the
difference in the life of someone close to you.
Matthew 10:32 says: "Whoever acknowledges
Me before men,I will acknowledge him before
My Father in heaven.But whoever disowns
Me before men,I will disown him before My
Father in heaven"