Love and Trust of a Child
Illustration★★★★The illustration—A little girl asked her mother how old she must be before she could love God and be a Christian. Her mother answered her, “How old will you have to be before you love me?”
The little girl replied in amazement, “Why, mother, I always loved you.” “Well, then, how old must you be ‘ before you can trust yourself wholly to me, to my care?’
The little girl answered, “I always did, but tell me how old I must be.” But her mother asked her another question, “How old will you have to be before you can do what I want you to do?”
She re- plied, “I can NOW, without growing any older at all.” Then her mother said and all true mothers and fathers can say the same thing, “You can be a Christian now.
Love and try to please the One who says, ‘Suffer little children to come unto me.’ ” 6. Something that is used to show the disastrous consequences of the failure to apply a certain principle or of applying a certain principle, depending on whether we treat the matter positively or negatively. The principle: We should be thoroughly prepared for what we attempt to do.
The point
A dialogue showing a child can become Christian immediately by asking if she must wait to grow up to love, trust, and obey her mother as she does God.