EBPN
From
Kimani and Heather
I've
seen this before, but it's worth reading again.
John
3:16
In the city of Chicago, one cold, dark night, a blizzard was setting in.
A little boy was selling newspapers on the corner, the people were in and
out of the cold.
The little boy was so cold that he wasn't trying to sell many papers.
He walked up to a policeman and said, "Mister, you wouldn't happen
to know where a poor boy could find a warm place to sleep tonight would you?
You see, I sleep in a box up around the corner there and down the alley
and it's awful cold in there, for tonight.
Sure would be nice to have a warm place to stay."
The policeman looked down at the little boy and said, "You go down
the street to that big white house and you knock on the door.
When they come out the door you just say John 3:16 and they will
let you in."
So
he did, he walked up the steps to the door, and knocked on the door and a lady
answered. He
looked up and said, "John 3:16."
The lady said "Come on in, Son." She took him in and she sat
him down in a split bottom rocker in front of a great big old fireplace and she
went off. He
sat there for a while, and thought to himself "John 3:16....I don't
understand it, but it sure makes a cold boy warm."
Later she came back and asked him "Are you hungry?"
He said, "Well, just a little. I haven't eaten in a couple of days
and I guess I could stand a little bit of food." The lady took him in the
kitchen and sat him down to a table full of wonderful food.
He ate and ate until he couldn't eat any more.
Then he thought to himself "John 3:16...
Boy, I sure don't understand it, but it sure makes a hungry boy
full."
She took him upstairs to a bathroom to a huge bathtub filled with warm
water and he sat
there and soaked for a while. As he soaked, thought to himself,
"John 3:16... I sure don't
understand it, but it sure makes a dirty boy clean.
You know, I've not had a bath, a real bath, in my whole life.
The only bath I ever had was when I stood in front of that big old fire
hydrant as they flushed it out."
The lady came in and got him, and took him to a room and tucked him into
a big old feather bed and pulled the covers up around
his neck and kissed him goodnight and turned out the lights.
As he laid in the darkness
and looked out the window at the snow coming down on that cold night he
thought to himself, "John 3:16...
I don't understand it, but
it sure makes a tired boy rested."
The next morning she came back up and took him down again to that same
big table full of food. After he ate she took him back to
that same big old split bottom rocker in front of the
fireplace and she took a big old Bible and sat down in front of him and
she looked up at and she
asked, "Do you understand John 3:16?" He said, "No, Ma'am,
I don't. The
first time I ever heard it was last night when the policeman told me to use
it."
She opened the Bible to John 3:16, and she began to explain to him about
Jesus. Right there in front of that big old fireplace he gave his heart and life
to Jesus. He sat there and thought, "John 3:16. I don't understand it, but
it sure makes a lost boy feel safe."
You know, I have to confess I don't understand it either, how God would
be willing to send His Son to die for me, and how Jesus would agree to do such a
thing. I
don't understand it either, but
it sure does make life worth living.
Author Unknown
John
3:16
For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life .
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the
world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is
condemned already, because he hath not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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