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, he
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 him
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
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.
17. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but
that the world through him might be saved.
18. 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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