He Came To Me

• We can remember the day we got married

In all fairness, some of us men do forget our anniversary, which is not a good thing to do!

Illus: One woman who knew her husband who could not remember what day they got married and as a result often forgot their anniversary, decided she would play a joke on him.

He woke up one morning rubbing his eyes and staggered to the breakfast table in his pajama’s and wearing his house coat. With his head buried in his hands, his cheerful wife comes bouncing into the dinning room with a smile and a plate full of pancakes and said, “Do you know what day it is?”

When she said this, he sat up, trying to remember what day it was. With a phony smile on his face, he said, “How could I ever forget?”

He got dressed and hurried out of the house, and all day at the office he was thinking “Is this our anniversary?” He finally decided that it had to be their anniversary.

On the way home he bought two nice steaks, a beautiful fur coat and a dozen red roses. He walked into the house, gave his wife a big smile, and gave her the two steaks to celebrate the occasion and a beautiful fur coat. Then he pulled a dozen red roses from behind his back and gave her a big kiss.

After the kiss, she looked him in the eyes and said, “I am so glad you did not forget. This is the best GROUND HOG DAY I have ever had!”

There are some days we can forget and there are some days we had better not forget!

• We can remember when our children were born

• Some can remember the day and the place they were when they heard that president John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

• Some can remember the day and the place they were when they heard that Elvis Presley died.

There are days in our life when PEOPLE and EVENTS are so important to us that those days stand out above all the rest, and we will never forget them.

But the day WHEN THE LORD CAME TO US, is one of the most significant days of our life.

I have a problem with people who say, “I gave my heart to the Lord and I know I am saved but I can not remember a time in my life when I really came to know the Lord!” Listen, you might not know the:

• The month of the year

• The day of the week

• The time it took place

But something as significant as receiving the Lord Jesus and becoming born-again is something you will not forget.

And like so many of you, I can remember very well the time in my life that the Lord Jesus CAME UNTO ME and saved me. When he came to me I was in bad shape. I was like:

• The sinful woman at Jacob’s well

• The blind man at the Temple

• The poor beggar in Jericho

• The rich man, Zacchaeus, who was in a tree

I was as lost and helpless as they were, but today I am saved.

We can best see our situation as we look at the scriptures and see when the Lord came to the City of Nain, where the widow lived whose son had died.

As we look at her life, I want to show you three things that happened to her as Christ came to her. These same three things apply to our life also. Notice-

I. HE CAME AT A TIME OF DEATH

Look at verse 12, we read, “Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.”

The city of Nain was known for it’s beauty. In fact, the word “Nain” means “beautiful”. It was a place where folks would want to take their vacation. This is the city the Lord came to.

In every city we go to, we always find that they have funeral homes and cemeteries, regardless of how beautiful their city might be.

And when the Lord arrived in Nain, the first thing he saw was a funeral procession. This was a beautiful city but there was no beauty in Nain that day. When the Lord arrived that day it was all bad news.

We can not help but feel that this man who had died was well liked by the citizens of Nain. The Bible says, “…and much people of the city was with her.”

Sometimes you can judge people’s esteem for a man by the size of his funeral. Not always, but many times!