To my dear
grandchildren,
The Lost
Money
A few summers ago we spent a
weekend at a cottage on a lake with all our children and grandchildren. They
all had a happy time jumping off a large inflatable dock into fifteen feet of
water.
William, one of the dads, had
stuffed a carefully folded fifty dollar bill into his bathing suit pocket. In
the fun of pushing and shoving each other off the dock the pocket with the money
in it became torn. At the end of the afternoon, William noticed that the money
was missing from his torn pocket.
William called his two boys
aside and told them about the lost money. They decided to pray about it, with
faith believing what God has promised in Luke 11:9-10, "ASK, and it
shall be give you: SEEK, and ye shall find; KNOCK, and it shall be opened unto
you. For every one that asks, RECEIVES; and he that seeks finds and to him that
knocks it shall be OPENED."
After they finished praying
about the matter, William swam out to the floating dock and dove into the clear
water. When he came back up to the surface, he had the lost money in his
hand.
After returning to the shore,
he said to his sons, "Let's kneel down and thank the Lord for helping us find
the money."
For the whole family -
children, parents and grandparents - that answered prayer was a wonderful lesson
on the readiness of the Lord Jesus to answer quickly when we need help
right now. If you were to ask any of
the children who were there that day, "Does God answer prayer?" they would
probably answer, "Yes He does, and sometimes very
fast!"
Love
Grandpa
No comments:
Post a Comment