GOSPEL NUGGET #572

A little boy was standing beside a tall and big star apple tree. He was looking up and staring at the  star apple fruits which seemed to invite him to take them for himself. How in the world could he have them? The tree was an impossible climb for someone like him.

Then a man, the owner, stood beside him and asked: "Do you want to have some of them?"
The little boy enthusiastically bobbed his head up and down and zestfully said: "Yes!"

The man then climbed the tree and picked out the choicest star apple fruits and brought it to the little boy, whose eyes, by now, were glowing with glee. "Thank you so much!" he exclaimed, giving the man a big hug.

Salvation is like that. We are the little boy --- impotent to procure salvation for ourselves. But Someone, the Lord Jesus, "climbed the tree" of Calvary and obtained salvation for us. All we have to do is to receive it freely from His hands, by faith in Him and what He did on the cross. Then, we give Him a big hug, we love on Him for the rest of our lives for what He did.