Sunday, May 29, 2011

The Boy and the Broom

I heard a little story this morning that I want to remember, so I will keep it here in my blog.

There was once a little boy who was bored with his toys, and he wondered what he could do to have some fun. He looked through his house and he spied a broom hanging on a wall. "I know!" he thought, "I'll take this broom outside and ride it around the neighborhood pretending it is a horse." And that's just what he did.

Later that evening after the boy's mother had cleaned up the dinner dishes she went to find her broom to sweep up the floor, but the broom wasn't there where she had left it.

"Son," the mother called out to the boy, "do you know where the broom is?"

"Yes," replied the young man, "I took it outside to play with it, and I forgot to bring it back in."

"Well, I need you to please go outside and get the broom and bring it back in to me so I can finish my work."

"But, Mom," the boy said. "I can't do that. It's dark outside and I'm afraid of the dark."

The mom encouraged him, "Oh, there's nothing to be afraid of. You can go out in the dark because the Lord is always out there to be with you."

The boy walked over to the door, opened it just enough to stick his head out and called out, "Lord! If you're out there, will you please bring the broom in for me?"



We, the church, need to be careful that we don't behave as this little boy did. Sometimes we huddle in our church buildings and open up the doors just enough to call out to God, "If You're out there, Lord, will you please bring in the unsaved to us? We're too afraid to go out into the world and get them ourselves."

This is the purpose of the church in this world, to go out to them and bring them in to Him. We are the nucleus. They are the outsiders, and they need us to show them the way in.