She Was Willing To Die Six Times
Good News –April 2015 – Grace & Truth Magazine
She Was Willing To Die Six Times
A well-known evangelist used to tell the following story:
Some time ago I went to visit a little seven-year-old girl, named Mary, who was quite ill. She wanted to see me urgently, so I went to her house. They took me to her room and I sat beside her bed.
“So, here I am. Tell me, little one, why did you want to see me?” I asked.
“I wanted to speak to you before I die.”
“But,” I asked in surprise, “What did you say? That you are going to die?”
“Yes, I am going to die.”
“You don’t want to be treated and recover your health?”
“No, sir,” young Mary affirmed.
“But ... why not?”
“Because since I have become a Christian,” the child answered with great calm, “many times I have tried to take my daddy to church, but he doesn’t want to go. I think that if I die, you would preach the gospel at my funeral. Isn’t that right?”
“Yes, little one.”
“Well, I think that if I die my daddy would have to go to the funeral. I would be willing to die six times over in order for him to hear the gospel.”
Not long after our conversation the little girl died. But just when she was to be buried I was quite seriously ill and it was impossible for me to attend her funeral.
Some time later a gentleman approached me and asked, “Do you know who I am?”
“I’m sorry, sir. I don’t know you.”
“I am the father of little Mary – the daddy she died for. I heard that she was willing to die six times over in order for me to hear the gospel even once. This has touched me very deeply and now I want to know the way of salvation.”
Soon after that the gentleman received the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior.
“‘The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart’ (that is, the word of faith which we preach); that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, ‘Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame’ ... For the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For ‘whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved’” (Romans 10:8-13 NKJV).
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household” (Acts 16:31).
How about you, dear reader? You see that it is as simple as the faith of a little child. Why not join that sweet little one and her repentant father, and receive the Savior and eternal life yourself? We can tell you how.
This is available from us as a tract – but in Spanish only. Ask for Spanish tract #101.