92 YEAR OLD PREACHER

While watching a little TV on Sunday, I watched as a church in Atlanta
honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years. He
was 92 and I wondered why the church even bothered to ask the old
gentleman to preach at that age. After a warm welcome, introduction of
this speaker, and as the applause quieted down, he rose from his high
back chair and walked slowly, with great effort and a sliding gait to
the  pulpit. Without a note or written paper of any kind he placed both
hands on the pulpit to steady himself and then quietly and slowly he
began to speak....

"When I was asked to come here today and talk
to you, your pastor asked me to tell you what was the greatest lesson
ever learned in my 50-odd years of preaching. I thought about it for a
few days and boiled it down to just one thing that made the most
difference in my life and sustained me through all my trials..The one
thing that I could always rely on when tears and heartbreak and pain and
fear and sorrow paralyzed me... the only thing that would comfort was
this verse........

"Jesus loves me this I know.
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong,
we are weak but He is strong,
Yes, Jesus loves me....
The Bible tells me so."

The
old pastor stated, "I always noticed that it was the adults who chose
the children's hymn 'Jesus Loves Me' (for the children of course) during
a hymn sing, and it was the adults who sang the loudest because I could
see they knew it the best."

"Here for you now is a Senior version of Jesus Loves Me":

JESUS LOVES ME

Jesus loves me, this I know ,
Though my hair is white as snow
Though my sight is growing dim,
Still He bids me trust in Him.
(CHORUS)
YES, JESUS LOVES ME.. YES, JESUS LOVES ME..
YES, JESUS LOVES ME, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO.

Though my steps are oh, so slow,
With my hand in His I'll go
On through life, let come what may,
He'll be there to lead the way.
(CHORUS)

When the nights are dark and long,
In my heart He puts a song..
Telling me in words so clear,
"Have no fear, for I am near."
(CHORUS)

When my work on earth is done,
And life's victories have been won.
He will take me home above,
Then I'll understand His love.
(CHORUS)

I love Jesus, does He know?
Have I ever told Him so?
Jesus loves to hear me say,
That I love Him every day.
(CHORUS)

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