David Given Schwarm

It was the thief’s last prayer, perhaps even his first. He knocked once, sought once, asked once, dared everything, and found everything. When even the disciples were doubting, and only one was present at the Cross, the thief owned and acknowledged Him as Savior.

A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kingdom a thief at the door of death asked to die like a thief and steal Paradise. One would have thought a saint would have been the first soul purchased over the counter of Calvary…