Alice Lee Humphreys, in her book Angels in Pinafores, tells about her experiences as a first grade teacher. She tells about one little girl who came to school one winter day wearing a beautiful white angora beret with white mittens and a matching muff. As she was coming through the door, a mischievous little boy grabbed the white muff and threw it in the mud. After disciplining the little boy, the teacher sought to comfort the little girl. Brushing the mud off of her soiled muff, the little girl looked up at the teacher and said in a quiet and responsible manner, “Sometime I must take a day off and tell him about God.”

As far as that young lady was concerned, everything that was wrong with that young man could be made right if she could just tell him about God.

Why is it important for you and me to tell others the good news of what God has done in Jesus Christ? Why is it important that my life and yours be a witness for the Lord? What did the little girl know that maybe you and I in our sophisticated adulthood have forgotten?

It is said that man has an insatiable hunger for God. This is part of the greatness of man, we are told. “As the heart panteth after the water brooks,” wrote the Psalmist, “so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” Man hungers for God. But the supreme mark of our greatness is undoubtedly God’s search for man. In the first pages of the Bible we read, “Adam, where art thou?” and the search continues throughout the Book. Of course the ultimate symbol of that search is the cross of Calvary.

Someone has noted that of forty persons who were healed by Jesus in the New Testament, friends either brought thirty-four to Jesus or Jesus was taken to them. Only six came to Jesus by their own initiative. Our task as individual Christians remains today to reach out to persons in Jesus’ name and to bring them to the One who can satisfy all their needs.

A study was recently made of one very rapidly declining denomination. It was discovered that on the average, members of this particular church invite someone to worship every twenty-eight years!

How long has it been since you have given someone a simple invitation to join with you in worship? The little girl looked up at her teacher and quietly said in a responsible manner, “Sometime I must take a day off and tell him about God.”