JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU!

This is a bit long, but well worth reading to the end. I think we all could learn a lesson from it.
Please read with an open heart and listen to the message it gives.

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 afternoon, as it came time 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
“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 responded, “Son, it’s very cold outside and it’s pouring down rain.”

The boy gave his Dad a surprised look, and asked, “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, “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 everyone 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 no one
answered. He rang it again and again but still no one answered. He waited
but still no answer. Finally the 11-year-old trooper turned to leave but
something (the Holy Spirit of God) stopped him. Again, he turned to the door
and rang the bell, and knocked loudly on the door with his fist. He waited,
something (the Holy Spirit of God) 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 asked
softly, “What can I do for you, son?”

With radiant eyes and a smile that lit up her world, the 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!”

Well, the following Sunday morning in church, Pastor Dad was in the pulpit
and as the service began, he asked, “Does anyone 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 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; for I had come 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 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, which 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 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 slowly read 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 was not a dry eye 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:

Our Father, God, also allowed His Son, Jesus, to go out into a cold and
dark world to save the lost and dying. When He was finished, God received
Him 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 either be a Christian, for we are not
without problems, or you may not yet know the King. Whatever the case,
problem, or situation you find yourself in, and no matter how dark it may
seem, I want you 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

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