Persistent Love

Will and Peter Pell once were preaching at a conference in Hamilton, ON. At lunch, a woman asked if they would visit her unsaved brother in the hospital. When they arrived, the nurse told them the man had been in a coma for some time, a detail the sister had not given them! But they went into the room anyway. What should they do? “Let’s sing,” said Bill. And the brothers began, “I am so glad that our Father in heaven, tells of His love in the Book He has given…” The man began to stir. They sang the second stanza and the man began to mumble. They bent down to hear. “Maybe He loved me when a boy in Sunday School, but He couldn’t love me now, after what I’ve done.” So they sang the next verse: “Though I forget Him and wander away, Still He doth love me wherever I stray; Back to His dear, loving arms would I flee, When I remember that Jesus loves me.” The man came out of the coma that day and put his trust in the God of such persistent love.

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