A Child's Prayer

 

A Child’s Prayer

A small child was sitting beside his mother on the front porch of their unfinished home. She held a bleeding little boy. Bloody towels and rags littered the area. Blood streamed through the wrap around the smaller boy’s foot. She rocked him and cried. He was pale and listless. The father was away seeking work. Times were hard. Medical aid was not even a dream, much less a consideration. This younger sibling had suffered a severe cut to his bare foot. The cut had gone deep enough to slice a vein or an artery. Mother knew not God in a real sense. But, she cried: “God, he’s bleeding to death.” Scared, crying and bewildered, the older left the porch in a flash to the very spot where the cut had occurred. He fell on his face in the sand and cried a heart rendering prayer to God for his brother. Upon returning to the bloody scene, he discovered his brother sitting on his mother’s lap. The foot was unwrapped and there was no bleeding. God had heard the prayer of His child.

  Genesis 3:7 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

  Genesis 3:6 “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

  2 Kings 20:1 “In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, 3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. 4 “...the LORD came to him, saying, 5 “I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. 6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years;..."

  Luke 3: 23 “And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age...”

 Then Jesus delivered His plan of salvation for three years and was crucified for our sins. He had attained the age of thirty three when He died. But he resurrected in three days and lives evermore. His children will pass through death unto life without consideration of earthly age. He loves the prayers of His children. Know God, know peace. Amen.