TWO MEN were taking a ride on horseback together. As they were about to separate, one of them said to the other, “Do you ever read your Bible?”
“Yes, but I get no benefit from it, because, to tell you the truth, I feel that I do not love God.”
“Neither did I,” replied the other, “but I found from the Bible that God loved me. And He loves you, too, my friend.”
This was something that gentleman had never thought of before. It had a great effect upon him. As he said afterward, in speaking about it, it made him feel “as if he had been lifted off the saddle up into the skies.” He began to read the Bible, as he had never read it before. He learned the great lesson that God loved him; and the sense of that love brought him to the Saviour whom he found loved him and had given Himself for him on the cross. That was but the beginning of a new life of blessing and fruitfulness, for he became a devoted servant of the Lord.
ML-12/16/1962