By: Mike Riley
The story is about a little girl who once crawled up into her father’s lap while he was reading a newspaper and told him how much she would like him to build her a dollhouse. Like the importunate widow in Luke 18:1-8, the little girl continued asking until her father finally said, “Yes, I promise to build you a dollhouse.”
He made his daughter that promise mainly so she would get down off his lap and he could then finish reading his newspaper in peace. The little girl jumped and skipped off to who knows where, and her father continued reading.
However, as time went on, the promise that the father made to his daughter somehow slipped his mind.
A few weeks later, the father walked into his daughter’s room and found her carefully packing all of her dolls and doll furniture into a large box.
Her father asked, “What are you doing, sweetheart?”
The little girl replied, “Why I’m getting reading to move.” “And just where are you moving to?” her father asked. “Why into the new dollhouse you promised to build me, Daddy.” The little girl’s father suddenly became overwhelmed with guilt because he then remembered what he had promised his daughter but had not given the dollhouse any further thought.
Hoping to smooth over the situation, the father grinned and asked his daughter, “Are you sure there’s going to be a new dollhouse honey?”
To which his daughter immediately replied, “Yes Daddy, because you promised.”
Brethren and friends, our Savior has promised us a prepared place in His Father’s house (John 14:1-3), and unlike the little girl’s father in the above story, our Savior will not forget — His promise is a done deal! (1 Peter 1:3-4; cf. 2 Timothy 1:7-12).