“O Let Him In!”
A picture of the Lord Jesus knocking at the door of a heart was taken one day by a parish visitor to a house where a father and mother lived with their small son.
Some impulse made the mother pin the picture up in their little kitchen and when the small boy came in from school, he was very interested in it. His mother was too busy with the dinner to answer his questions, but presently Father came in from work.
“Who is the Man, Daddy, and why is He knocking at the door?” the little fellow asked again and again. The father tried to ignore the question, but it was asked again and again with great persistence, and at last he replied that it was the Lord Jesus Christ knocking at a door. “Then why don’t they let Him in?” asked the little boy, wonderingly.
Dinner came just then, and the father managed to change the subject, but again and again during the days which the little lad asked the same question: “Why don’t they let Him in?” The question began ringing in the father’s ears, until at last one day he fell on his knees and cried: “Lord Jesus, it’s the door of my heart at which You are knocking. Please forgive me for keeping You waiting so many years. The door is open – oh, come right in and take possession!”
-----Gospel Herald