How John Became a Man: Life Story of a Motherless Boy

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t was for John that he discovered before it was too late that he was a sinner, lost in God's sight, and that it was necessary for him to forsake all of his evil ways and habits if he wo

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his surprise that, instead of his being a man, he was only a child, a mere babe, in God's sight. John had expected to be changed and to be different in every way, but he did not know that, in order to realize his de

a man, I put away childish things." Again he was determined to become a man, and to develop as quickly as possible. From that time on he availed himself of every

Father for hiding His truths from the wise and prudent and for revealing them to babes. John was not long in perceiving th

special work, just so the spiritual body of which He (Christ) is the head has many members to carry on the Lord's work on the earth. And, as in the human body, each member has its own work to do; similarly, in the spiritual body, each member has his own work to perform. S

the work of the members of His Son's spiritual body, or saved people, and that this same Holy Spirit is still guiding and helping them. He also r

ts to know which is right. He saw that the test is love. If anyone loves God and His Son, Jesus, more than anything else in the world, and feels as much interest in his neighbor's welfare as in his ow

after Sunday, he often thought of many of the hard places through which he had passed when he was a child and remembered that it was because he had not been warned that he had, one step at a time, gone down until he was in misery and on the verge of despair. So John sought to throw light on each one of these dange

it was not long until they decided that they needed him for their class more than the children did for theirs. While he was teaching the advanced Bible class, his own

Jesus is just as able and ready to heal those who are sick as He was to relieve sufferers in days gone by and that any

Thou hast now taken from me the desire for these things, but the suffering in my back and lungs i

e Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth a

d to these days of happiness, the days when his desires to attain to true manhood were being realized. His heart was lonely no longer. He had a