Brothers:
Our friend Mike Vance shared this, and it is herewith passed along for the enjoyment of the masses!
Have a great weekend!
Your Scribe,
PRDunklau
92 YEAR OLD
PREACHER
While watching a
little TV on Sunday, 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 would 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."
The old pastor
stated, "I always noticed that it was the adults who chose the children's
hymn 'Jesus Loves 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 for you
now is a 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.
(CHORUS)
