"Many years ago, while watching TV on Sunday instead of going to church, I watched a Church in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years.He was 92 at that time and I wondered why the Church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to preach at that age.
After a warm welcome, introduction of this speaker, and as the applause quieted down, he rose from his high back chair and walked slowly, with great effort and a sliding gait,to the podium. Without a note or written paper of any kind, he placed both hands on the pulpit to steady himself and then quietly and slowly he began to speak.
'When I was asked to come here today and talk to you, your pastor asked me to tell you what was the greatest lesson ever learned in my 50 or so years of preaching. I thought about it for a few days and boiled it down to just one thing that made the most difference in my life and sustained me through all my trials. The one thing that I could always rely on when tears and heartbreak and pain and fear and sorrow paralyzed me...... the only thing that would comfort was this verse.....
'Jesus loves me this I know.For the Bible tells me so.Little ones to him belong,We are weak but he is strong.....Yes, Jesus loves me...The Bible tells me so.'
When he finished, the church was quiet. You actually could hear his footsteps as he shuffled back to his chair. "
We often forget the simple truth. We like to make things complicated. We like to dance around conversations that are too great for us to understand, yet the simple truth remains...
"Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." If we could just grasp that simple truth and live to love Him back, then maybe our lives would be much more productive for His glory and much less complicated and filled of our own.
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