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attended your church today. You won’t But his words were drowned in a buzzing
even remember me - I may be 11 or 80 - beside me. When I glanced around, you
Iyou won’t even know. I was searching were putting on your coats and telling your
for something. I think I almost found it. I family to hurry and get their things.
think I would have if you hadn’t been in Looking in front of me, I saw you frown at
such a hurry. You sang a song: “Oh, how I your watches as if time were running out.
love Jesus.” That made my heart beat Your faces told me a story!
faster. I felt a light choking sensation in my Suddenly, I didn’t want to look at any of you
throat as your pastor described the any more. My eyes burned, my throat hurt,
condition of a lost person. my heart ached, my body trembled. I just
“I am lost! He is talking about me,” I said to couldn’t walk towards that altar!
myself. “From the way he speaks, being You really did not care about me! This
saved must be very important.” I looked at salvation your pastor was telling me about
you sitting in the pews near me. wasn’t really that important. You only
You were listening too. You seemed to wanted to get away. I wanted to to get away
think the pastor’s words were important. too! SO, I WALKED OUT AMONG YOU.
“These people are so concerned,” l ALONE - LOST!
thought. “They want me saved too!”
Soon your minister made his altar appeal
and asked you to stand and sing another
of the beautiful songs you know so well. I
swallowed the lump in my throat and
wished I knew the joy with which you sang.
Then, your pastor looked at me and
earnestly told me how I could have this joy.
A s a group of college students toured dirt.
the slums of a city, one of the girls,
You hate dirt, but you don’t
seeing a little girl playing in the dirt,
asked a guide, “Why doesn’t her mother love her enough to go down
there and clean her up.
clean her up?” Until hate for dirt, and love
“Madam,” he replied, “that girl’s mother for that dirty child are in the
probably loves her, but she doesn’t hate same person, that little girl
is likely to remain as she is.”
Until hate for sin, but love
for the sinner are found in a
person, he will do little
about the plight of the lost!
- Selected
