For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never worn

 They say Ernest Hemingway wrote the shortest story in the world. It had only six words: For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never worn.

These six words tell the story of someone who is selling a pair of unused baby shoes. When we think of the reasons, these six words unleash a multitude of situations.

Believe it or not, in literary circles, these six words are noted as the shortest story in the world because they say so much with so few words. Everyone who tells the story of baby shoes for sale will give it a different meaning.

The shoemaker sells the shoes because no one bought them.

The family facing bankruptcy sells the shoes because it needs the money.

The gambler won the shoes and sells the shoes to collect his winnings.

The auctioneer who sells the shoes highlights the fact that they have never been worn.

The story's genius is that everyone who reads the six words interprets them differently because each has a different life experience.

As Christians, we have a story to tell: Jesus loved, He died, he saved. These six words tell a story, too. It's our salvation story. Everyone who tells their salvation and thanks story will have a different story to tell.

Ephesians 2:4-5 says, "But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved."

Hemingway's six words was the shortest story ever told.

But the six words of Jesus' life: He loved, he died, he saved...is the greatest story ever told.