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92 YEAR OLD PREACHER............
While watching a little TV on Sunday instead of going to church, I watched a Church in Atlanta honoring
one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years.
He was 92 at that time and I wondered
why the Church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to preach at that age.
After a warm welcome,
introduction of this speaker, and as the applause
quieted down he rose from his high back chair and walked slowly,
with
great effort and a sliding gait, to the podium.
Without a note or written paper
of any kind he placed both hands on the
pulpit to steady himself and then quietly and slowly he began to speak...
When I was asked to come here today and talk to you, your pastor asked me to tell you what was the greatest
lesson ever learned in my 50 odd years of preaching.
I thought about it for a few days and boiled
it down to just one thing
that made the most difference in my life and sustained me through all my trials.
The one thing that I could always rely on when tears and heartbreak and
pain and fear and sorrow
paralyzed me... The only thing that comfort was
this verse..........
Jesus loves me this I know.
For the Bible tells me so.
Little
ones to Him belong,
We are weak but He is strong.....
Yes, Jesus loves me...
The Bible tells
me so.'
When he finished, the church was quiet. You actually could hear his foot
steps as
he shuffled back to his chair. I don't believe I will ever
forget it.
A pastor once
stated, 'I always noticed that it was the adults who chose
the children's hymn 'Jesus Lov es Me'
(for the children of course) during a hymn sing, and it was the adults who sang the loudest because I could see they
knew it the best.'
Here is a new version just for us who have white hair or no hair at all.
For
us over middle age (or even those almost there) and all you others
check out this newest version of Jesus Loves
Me
'Senior version of Jesus Loves Me'
JESUS LOVES ME
Jesus loves
me, this I know,
Though my hair is white as snow
Though my sight is growing dim,
Still He
bids me trust in Him.
(CHORUS)
YES, JESUS LOVES ME.. YES, JESUS LOVES ME..
YES,
JESUS LOVES ME FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO.
Though my steps are oh, so slow,
With my hand
in His I'll go
On through life, let come what may,
He'll be there to lead the way.
(CHORUS)
When the nights are dark and long,
In my heart He puts a song.
Telling me
in words so clear,
'Have no fear, for I am near.'
(CHORUS)
When my work
on earth is done,
And life's victories have been won.
He will take me home above,
Then
I'll understand His love
(CHORUS)
I love Jesus, does He know?
Have I ever
told Him so?
Jesus loves to hear me say,
That I love Him every day.
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