Tiny Little Things

I’m sure we are all familiar with the children’s hymn “Jesus Loves Me.” But have you all heard the story woven around the lyrics?

There was a boy named Johnny Fax, told in the novel “Say and Seal” by Susan and Anna Warner. Living in poverty, little Johnny was a gentle and cheerful child but was also frail and very ill. His father was around, but absent. Thankfully, Johnny’s heavenly Father gave him a fatherly figure that filled the void in his heart and quenched his spiritual longing. It was Mr. Linden, a local teacher in the community. Together with his wife, Ms. Faith, they became spiritual teachers and emotional mentors for little Johnny.

The couple was always by his side even as the little boy was fading. Towards the end of his short journey, wrapped in Mr. Linden’s arms, Johnny’s tiny voice asked him, “Sing!” The man’s low-toned voice then raised his song, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong, they are weak but He is strong.”

The child trusted the Lord, his faith was simple yet strong. He wasn’t scared of the end of his little steps. He looked forward to the day he would live where Jesus lives.

This may only be a short story of a novel, but didn’t Jesus say that “Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven”? Jesus calls us to come to Him as His little ones, weak, fragile, pure, and full of trust.

So, God’s little ones, as Acts 17:28 says, “For in him we live and move and have our being,” let us bring our praise to Him with all the little things He has given us. Here we begin the Tiny Little Things.