Here's A Story For Your Bus This Sunday!

“THE BIRTHDAY WISH”

Boys and Girls, our story today is a True Story about a King who lived long, long ago. This king was very rich and was very selfish…whatever he saw that he wanted and had to have, he took it, including another man’s wife. This king was so selfish and was so wicked, that when he saw the beauty of his own brother’s wife, he said within himself, “I must have her as MY wife!”, and he took his own brother’s wife for his own wife, just because he was the king and thought he could do it! And the woman, who should have been faithful to her own husband must have said within her heart, “Oh what excitement to think that the king wants me to be his wife…why I’ll be rich, and my daughter will grow up to be famous, and she can be able to have anything she ever wants if I will marry the king!” So she left her husband and the king married her…oh, how cruel to do something like that…for a king to love another man’s wife…and that woman to leave her husband, just to be rich…and that little girl to leave her daddy, just so she could have whatever she wanted…Could no one stop them from doing such evil things?? Well, there was a preacher who loved the Lord God, whose name was John…we know him in the Bible as John the Baptist. This preacher, who loved God, told the king that he was doing wrong by taking his brother’s wife, but when the king’s new wife heard this, she was mad and so as to keep her happy, the king put John in prison. One night, this king had a Big Birthday Party and all the nobles came. And they began to do wicked things at this party like drink and to have dancing. And the king’s new wife’s daughter began to dance before the king and his wicked friends…and as she danced before them, that king was so wicked that he lusted after his new wife’s daughter and told her, “Because your dancing has so pleased me and my friends, you may have anything you want, up to half of my kingdom!” Well the girl was very excited to be able to have anything she wanted, so she asked her wicked mother, “What should I ask for?” And her mother said, “Ask for that Preacher’s head on a platter!” What a wicked thing to do, but she did it! And because the king had already promised to give her whatever she asked for, he could not refuse her request even though he knew it was wrong to kill the man of God. So on the King’s birthday, the man of God was beheaded and his head was brought to the king and he gave it to this girl and she gave it to her mother…Boys and girls, be careful what you wish for on your birthday. It would be better to know Jesus and to live for him and to even lose your head for doing what is right, than to want everything you see and wish to have it! Why not trust Jesus as your own Saviour and decide to live for Him today?? You’ll be glad you did!