From the days before ready access to vccines comes this story: The doctor looked down at the little girl in the hospital bed. He knew that her only hope was to receive blood from someone who had recovered from the same disease.
Quickly the doctor found the anxious family, and knelt beside a small boy. "Johnny," he said, "your sister needs your kind of blood to make her well. Would you be willing to give your blood so that she can live?"
Johnny's eyes grew big. The doctor watched them well with fear, but the little boy hesitated only long enough to swallow the lump in his throat.
"Sure, Doctor, I will do it," he replied.
After the needed amount of blood was taken from Johnny's small arm, he remained quiet for a few minutes as he had been instructed. The he stood up, asked softly: "Well, Doctor, when do I die?"
Only then did the doctor realize the extent of the child's sacrifice. Johnny had offered his life to save his sister, Jesus declared that there is no greater love.
Greater love than this no man has, that a man lay down his life for his friends (Joh. 15:13).
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