It’s a Fact

Ember sat in her science class, nibbling the end of her pencil, but her mind was still on the message she had heard in church the day before. Pastor Warner had stressed the fact that everyone has sinned and needs Jesus as their Savior. Ember sighed. I know I'm a sinner, and I have trusted Jesus to save me, she thought. I know the Bible says He will, but I really don't feel like I'm saved. I wonder if I should ask Him to save me again, just to make sure. Actually, Ember often didn't feel like she was saved, so she'd confessed she was a sinner and told Jesus she trusted Him to save her many times.Suddenly Ember's thoughts were interrupted as she heard her teacher saying, "Did you know you're moving and spinning right now? The earth travels around the sun at about sixty-seven thousand miles an hour. It takes three hundred and sixty-five days to make the 584 million-mile circuit. The earth is also spinning. Like a top, it spins on its axis, making a complete rotation every twenty-four hours. The axis is an imaginary line that connects the North Pole and the South Pole. So even though we don't feel it, we're not only moving through space, we're spinning rapidly!"Wow! thought Ember. Hey, wait a minute! Even though I don't feel like I'm spinning, I know that I am because I'm on earth and it's moving through space. And even though I don't feel like I'm saved, I know that I am because I trust in Jesus and the Bible says everyone who trusts in Him will live with Him forever! That evening, Dad finished family devotions by asking Ember to read several verses from 1 John. After reading, Ember smiled and told her family what she had learned in science class. "I know what my teacher said about the earth moving and spinning is true, and I know what God says in the Bible is true," she told them. "The earth is spinning even though I can't feel it, and because I've trusted Jesus as my Savior, I'm a Christian even though I might not always feel like I am. It's true whether I feel it or not." -Nancy A. Thompson