How Old To Love You?
Illustration★★★★Illustration 1. A little girl asked her mother, “Mama, how old must I be before I can be a Christian?”
Her mother answered, “How old will you have to be before you love me?” “Why, mother,” the little girl exclaimed, “T’ve always loved you.”
Her mother then asked her, “How old will you have to be before you trust yourself to me and my care over you?” THE BIBLE SCHOOL LESSON Ad. She answered, “Why, I always do that, but tell me what I want to know.
How old must I be before I can become a Christian?” Again her mother replied by asking a question, ““How old will you have to be before you do what I want you to do?”
She exclaimed, “I can now, without growing any older.” Her mother said, “Then you can be a Christian now, my child.
Love and try to please the One who said, ‘Suffer little children to come unto me.’ ”
The point
A mother replies to her daughter's question about age for becoming Christian by asking whether she must wait to grow older to love, trust, and obey her mother.