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The Nerd!

“Well, how about next Friday night? Can you go out then?”

“How about the following Friday night?”

“What does three weeks from next Tuesday look like?”

“-Sigh- I didn’t know anyone scheduled shampooing their hair that far in advance.”

Poor Larry. He felt as though nobody liked him.

“Hey, everybody! Look at the zit on Larry’s nose!”

“Does that thing glow in the dark, Larry?”

“Sigh!”

“Wow! Look at the headlight on that guy!”

“What a nerd!”

He was always the last one chosen.

“No, we just picked. You can have him.”

“No way! You can take him.”

“No, that’s okay.”

“Sigh!”

“No, we insist!”

Nothing ever seemed to go right for poor Larry.

“Sigh!”

No matter how hard he tried to please…

Something always seemed to go wrong.

“Ouch!”

“Sigh!”

He often was the object of cruel jokes…

...And became the laughing stock of the whole school.

“Ha! Ha! Ha!”

“Ha! Ha! Ha!”

“Sigh!”

“Ha! Ha! Ha!”

“What a nerd!”

It seemed like all Larry ever got was criticism.

“Why can’t you be as smart as your brother?”

“When are you going to grow up?”

“When are your grades going to improve?”

“Sigh!”

“Get a haircut!”

“Get a job!”

“You’re watching too much TV!”

“What a nerd!”

“Why can’t people just love me the way I am?”

“Sigh!”

Larry had trouble believing anyone could love him.

But God does love you Larry.

“Huh!”

“God? Why should God love a nerd like me!”

Because the Bible says you’re part of His wonderful creation.

“For you [God] created my inmost being; you knit me in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” (Psalm 139:13,14)

“So if I’m so wonderful, why doesn’t God show me?”

He has!

“God demonstrates His own love for us, in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)

“Wow!”

“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)

“Wow!”

After Christ took our punishment and died in our place, He rose from the grave and went back into Heaven to prepare a place for those who put their trust in Him.

There is nothing you can do to make God love you more than He already does.

“Wow!”

The only way for you* to experience God’s love is to trust in Christ, God’s only Son. He died so your sins would be forgiven.

“Wow! For me?”

*And this goes for anyone reading this-even if you aren’t a nerd.

“Whoever believes in Him (Jesus) is not condemned… whoevers believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life.” (John 3:18,36)

Dear Jesus, thank you for loving me so much You died in my place. I want to put my total trust in You to be my Savior, Amen.”

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