How many boys and girls have seen a blind man? Sometimes we see a man carefully tapping his way along the street with a white cane, and then we know he is unable to see. What a great and priceless gift of God is our eyesight!
It is wonderful, though, that many dear blind folks are able to read Braille books. A Frenchman, whose name was Louis Braille, invented a system of writing for the blind, by using groups of raised dots to represent different letters.
Now I must tell you of a poor blind man who did not have much education. He was seated at a crossroad, reading the gospel of John. On his knees he carefully balanced a book, and his fingers were gliding over the pages written in Braille characters. His fingers were passing and repassing over the raised letters, and the blind man was saying, “Whosoever? whosoever? What does that word mean, Whosoever?”
A young boy, who was returning to school, heard him ask the question. He called out loudly, “Whosoever, that’s you, that’s me, and it’s everybody.”
“Good!” said the blind man. “Whosoever believes shall not perish. It’s well for me. I believe in Jesus and I am saved.”
Dear boys and girls, search in the Bible for some verses where “Whosoever” is found.
And the Lord Jesus spoke of this to Nicodemus, telling him how. God gave life, by faith, to all those who looked at the serpent of brass raised on the pole. It was a picture of the Lord Jesus who would be raised up on the cross and made sin for us “that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:1515That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:15).
Then again the glorious gospel is told out so simply in the following verse. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16).
Just say, dear children, as this poor blind man did, “I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour, and I am saved!”
“And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
If you reject God’s gracious “whosoever” offering you a full and free salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, you will find yourself in a lost eternity. You are either in the “whosoever” of blessing or the “whosver” of judgment. Which is it with you, dear reader?
ML 04/29/1956