Vaughn was a quite little boy that always seemed to spend a
lot of time alone. He was always playing by himself and every time someone
would come to Vaughn and try speaking to him Vaughn would get nervous inside,
but try and talk back. The only problem was the words never came out right and
he would either stutter or the words would come out all mixed up and the other
children would not understand what he was trying to say. This would leave
Vaughn feeling very sad inside and angry because all he wanted to do was be
like the other children and talk and have the other children know what he was
trying to say.
So to stop the other children making fun of him, he would
try to be alone as much as he could and find other things to do that would
help him stay away from the other children. Then one day something happened
that Vaughn was not happy about and this is what happened:
On this very day in class, his teacher gave them a project
to do. What the Children had to do was to take a book that they really like
reading and then tell the rest of the Children in the class about the book.
Everyone seemed very excited about it except for one little boy! Yup, you
guessed it – It was poor Vaughn!
He loved reading and read lots of books, so it was not a
problem for him to find a book he liked. It was that he would have to speak to
all the children about it. If talking to one person made him speak all funny,
he did not want to even think of what a whole class of children would do to
him! He did not want to make a fool of himself and have everyone laugh at him!
What was he to do? What would you do if you had a problem
like Vaughn?
Well here is what Vaughn did! He went to his teacher and
asked her if their was some way that he could rather write out the book report
that he would have to read to the class and rather let her read it. Well I
wish I could say that the teacher just let him off the hook that easy, but
nope she didn’t! What she did do though was to help him with his problem!
You see it just so happened that his teacher was a kind and
friendly teacher. She was different to the other teachers. She told Vaughn a
very special story that helped him with the problem he had! And it was from
the bible! Do you know which story it was?
Well, let me tell you! It was the story of Moses! You see
Moses had killed a man and had to run away from Egypt to save his life and was
now living in the desert looking after sheep. He was very happy because all he
had to do was look after sheep all day and he did not have to talk to them to
make them do what he wanted.
But this was about to change! God had a very special job
for Moses and that meant doing two things that Moses was scared of doing. The
first was that he had to go back to Egypt where he had run away from - this
meant that he could be put to death if the people remembered him and what he
did! And the second was that he had to go before the king and speak to the
king and tell him to let God’s people go!
Now if that was not scary enough Moses had an even bigger
problem! Do you know what that was? Well, let me tell you. Moses had trouble
talking – that is right! The bible tells us that he was slow in speech and
tongue. And now God wanted him to go all the way to Egypt to speak to the
King. Well, God promised to help Moses and showed him that He would not let
anything happen to Moses!
Moses did as God told him to do and went back to Egypt and
do you know what? Moses not only got to speak to the king of Egypt, but he
also got to take the Children of Israel out of Egypt and lead them to the
Promised Land that God had for them.
Vaughn could not believe his ears! That night he took his
bible and read the book of Exodus to see what all happened to Moses and the
Children of Israel. He could not believe all the wonderful things that the
Lord did for them and after reading the story, He just knew that Lord Jesus
could do this for Him.
So He sat on his bed and prayed a little prayer that went
like this:
Lord Jesus I thank you for
always hearing my prayers!
I have a problem and I need your help!
Please help me like you did Moses!
Help me to talk so that I don’t make a fool of myself anymore!
You are so special Jesus – love you so much!
In Jesus Name,
Amen!
The next day at school Vaughn was still nervous inside but
there was something else there that was not there before. It was like the Lord
Jesus was standing next to him ready to help him. Vaughn felt so happy inside
that he forgot about being scared and do you know what? Each day it got easier
to speak.
Well the day came and the children all had a turn to speak
about their books. When it was Vaughn’s turn to speak He got up and got
ready. He opened his mouth but this time instead of battling to find the words
and to speak, he found it easy to talk. Lord Jesus had helped him and now it
was easy to speak. He told such an exciting story that all the children wanted
to read it. And do you know which story it was? It was the Book of Exodus, the
Story that showed him how Jesus could help him speak properly!
So are you not too good at talking to others? Do you find
it hard to find the words to tell other people what you are trying to tell
them? Then why not ask Lord Jesus to help you? He loves you so much and will
never say no! He loves to help us and to see us happy in everything we do or
say!
The End!
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you ever had a problem speaking to people or talking to a crowd? Maybe you had
to give a book report to your class or tried telling someone about something
exiting that happened to you? But when you tried to tell them, it all came out
wrong and you sounded silly? Well today I want to tell you the story of Vaughn
and how Jesus helped him.