While staying at the seaside I was attracted to a pretty little girl who was playing with her daddy near where I was sitting. She seemed to be enjoying the romp. On a seat nearby sat a young woman, whose face was badly scarred and who looked to be in pain.
I found out in conversation with her that she was the little girl’s mother. She told me that some months before she was walking with her little girl, when a motor cycle, out of control, dashed towards them. Seeing the danger, she threw the little girl aside, and received the full force of the impact. As a result of the accident her leg was broken and her body badly injured.
For weeks she lay unconscious, and only after months of suffering was she able to get to the seaside for a little change.
The child’s life was saved, but the mother bears the marks of her sacrifice still. The little girl is so young that she does not realize what her mother has gone through for her. But you, boys and girls, are not too young to realize what the Lord Jesus bore for you on the cross of Calvary.
We often sing the hymn—
“He knew how wicked man had been,
He knew that God must punish sin,
So out of pity Jesus said,
He’d bear the punishment instead.”
Can you say that He bore the punishment instead of you, and have you ever thanked Him? Although the Lord Jesus is in heaven now, He still bears the marks of His suffering, that which He endured that we might he saved. The day is coming very soon when all those who have believed in Him will surround Him in that beautiful home, and will gaze on His face. Will you be among that happy throng, and join in the song of the redeemed?
ML 05/14/1939