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A minister was boarding at a certain farmhouse.
The farmer was not a Christian, but his wife had been praying
for him for some time, and the minister was awaiting his
opportunity to make the meaning of Calvary plain to him. Early
one morning the farmer beckoned to the minister to follow him
out to the chicken house. There on one of the nests sat a hen
with a brood of chicks peeping out from under her
wings.
"Touch her," the farmer
said to the minister.
As the minister put his
hand on the hen he found that she was cold.
"Look at that wound in
her head," the farmer continued. "A weasel has sucked all the
blood from her body, and she never once moved for fear the
little beast would get her chicks."
"Oh," said he, "that was
just like Christ. He endured all that suffering on the Cross.
He could have moved and saved His own life, but He wouldn't,
because you and I were under His wings. If He had moved, we
would have been lost.
The farmer saw the
point, and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as
Savior.
~Author Unknown
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