CAROL was a little blind girl. Her parents had spent nearly all their money on doctors, but none had been able to make her see again. Finally one doctor did operate on Carol, and, wonderful to relate, she could see! How happy she was!
Carol’s parents had no money to give the doctor, but he did not mind. Carol had a teddy bear which she loved dearly, and it had been her dearest friend for many years. She decided that she would give her teddy to the doctor.
“Please take my teddy,” she told him. “He’s all I have!”
The doctor did take the teddy bear, and he kept it on the mantel in his living room. He often told the visitors that it came from a little girl who gave all that she had.
God too gave a gift to this world—His own dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He gave the best gift He had. God could not do more. He sent Jesus into this world to die for your sins and mine.
The doctor took the little blind girl’s gift. Have you taken God’s gift?
“Oh, what a Gift the Father gave When He bestowed His Son; To save poor ruined guilty man, By sin defiled, undone.”
ML-05/09/1971