Friday, October 12, 2007
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Rwanda. That's a word many Americans never knew until that little African nation was all over our TV and newspaper a few years ago. Tens of thousands of Rwandans were slaughtered in this bloody civil war. Billy Graham's son, Franklin Graham, took a medical team to try to help them, and I heard him tell about one little girl that he could never forget, and I don't think I ever will forget this. He was in this rebel camp, and he was walking by an army truck, and he noticed this one little girl sitting in the back of it, and she was just rocking back and forth. And she was singing something very softly, but in a language Franklin couldn't understand. There was a soldier standing by and he was paying no attention to the girl, but Franklin said, "What happened to this little girl?" And he said, "Ah, same as all the others. She's got nobody left." Franklin said, "Well, would you do me one more favor? Would you tell me what she's singing?" The soldier seemed a little annoyed, but he listened for a minute, and he said, "Yeah, it's, uh, uh..." And then he went on to translate it. And when he translated the song, it was clear this little Rwandan orphan hadn't lost everyone.
I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A WORD WITH YOU today about "Unloseable."
The soldier, after hearing the song sung by that little Rwandan orphan girl, said, "Yeah, it's something about Jesus loving her." Franklin Graham said, "Is it 'Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so'?" "Yeah, that's it." With her world torn apart, with every human who loved her gone, this precious little victim had one unloseable relationship.
Our word for today from the Word of God comes from Romans 8, beginning with verse 37, which talks about the worst things that could happen to you in your life. Then it says, "We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, nothing in the present or in the future, nor any powers, neither height or depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." That is a love you can never lose - that will never lose you.
Jesus is the unloseable person we have looked for all our lives. Actually, we're built to belong to our Creator. If it weren't for Jesus, though, we'd never even have that possibility because there's a gap between us and God called sin. It's basically the self-rule of our lives. So the God that we're built by and for is out of our reach until the sin bill is paid.
Talk about love! God's only Son came to remove the only thing that keeps us from His love; the death penalty for our sin. And from that moment you say, "Jesus, I'm putting my total trust in you and what you did on the cross for me," you belong to God and you always will. Nothing in heaven, nothing in hell, nothing on earth can end that relationship. God has guaranteed it.
Several years ago my wife and I spent a little time at a house at the Jersey Shore; like a little honeymoon. Two weeks later, she came down with life-threatening hepatitis. I'll never forget the night when she almost died, and I realized the one person who would never choose to leave me was about to. I thank God He spared her, but that night I realized the closest thing I have on earth to an unloseable person is loseable. But if and when I ever lose the earth person I love the most, I will still be able to sing, "Jesus loves me this I know." I hope you can, too.
If you're not sure you belong to Jesus, would you tell Him right now you want to. And we'd love to help you make sure, if you'll just drop by our website and see some of what we've laid out there that is a simple roadmap to beginning your relationship with Him. It's yoursforlife.net. Or you can just call for my booklet Yours For Life with the same information in it. You can call toll free at 877-741-1200.
You probably never expected to learn anything from a little Rwandan orphan girl, but she's hanging on to Jesus with all her heart. Isn't it time you grabbed Him like that? That is the only hand that will never let you go.