One summer day a group of botanists were out collecting rare flowers in the mountains. Looking down over the edge of a rather steep precipice they saw, through their field glasses, some flowers which were very rare, and they wanted to get them.
Just then a little lad came by. One of the botanists asked the boy if he would be willing to go down and dig up the flowers for them. They said they would tie a rope around his waist and hold him tight so he would not be hurt. They offered to pay him well if he would get the plants for them.
The boy did not answer. He just ran away, but it was not long till he returned with his father. Then he confidently said to the men, “If you will let my father hold the rope, I will go over the precipice and get the plant for you!”
This was real faith in one whom the boy knew he could trust. And what a lesson it is for us as to whom we are trusting for eternity. The little lad would not trust strangers to hold the rope, lest he should lose his life, and yet how many there are who are trusting the word of men for the salvation of their souls. Others are trusting their own works, their good character, church-going and other things. What a terrible discovery it will be to find out when it is too late that they are lost — eternally lost. Reader, whom are you trusting? Have you by faith seen the Lord Jesus dying for your sins on the cross of Calvary? Can you say, “He bore my sins in His own body on the tree?” Apart from Him there is no saation. His Person and work are the only foundation, and if you will claim this risen, living Saviour as your own, you will be able to say like Paul of old,
ML 07/01/1956