A Baby with a Message

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A six-year-old tiptoed softly up to the little low crib where one of this world’s very latest hopes was lying throned and swathed in the coverlets that love had sewn for its coming. Big brother’s face was gravely intent, his eyes bright and shining. He stooped far over and gazed down at that wrinkled, peevish bit of a face. “Now, baby brother,” he whispered into one tiny red ear half hid by the clustering black hair, “tell me about God before you forget.” The brother thought that the tiny baby had a message from God. There was one Baby who did. He was born in Bethlehem. But His existence did not begin at the time of His physical birth. He had a message for us from God the Father. It is found in the old familiar words of John 3:16. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

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