WHEN we know the Lord has saved us, we want to bring others to Him. By and by, when we get home, the Lord will call to remembrance everything that has been done for Him, and in His name, and He will reward every one according to his service. What a priceless pleasure there is in serving Him so that we do not work for reward, but for Him; but then, He is not forgetful of the work of faith and labor of love.
It is astonishing what we can do when we try.
“Can you tell me the way to Waterloo Station, my little man?” inquired a gentleman of a little boy that was walking along with a book under his arm.
“Yes, sir,” was the ready answer; “and I can tell you the way to heaven, too, sir.”
“Can you, my little fellow?” said the gentleman with a look of pleasant surprise on his face; “I should like to know both ways, then.”
“Well, sir, if you’ll keep straight on—no turnings—that will bring you to Waterloo Station; and Jesus said” (and the boy looked up with a smile into the gentleman’s face) “‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life,’—and that’s the way to heaven, sir.”
“Is it indeed so simple as that? Where did you learn the way to heaven so clearly?”
“At the Sunday school, sir, out of this book” (pointing to the Bible under his arm).
As they were going the same way, they got into conversation; and the gentleman found the little fellow had got hold of the Gospel, or God’s way of saving sinners, in such a nice manner, repeating several texts, that he was more than interested. After bidding his little guide to the station and to heaven good-bye, he told him he hoped he should see him again.
While on the train, the mind of the gentleman turned again to the answer of the little boy who immediately thought of heaven and was not ashamed to speak of it. God used the little boy’s conversation as the means of the man’s conversion. When he went to his Bible again, he found, as all must find who search it with a prayerful spirit, that God’s way of salvation is a straight way, straight on through the door opened by Christ Himself. He found there was nothing to do, for Christ has done it all, and God’s Word says,
“To him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly.” Rom. 4:5.
Was not that gracious of God; dear little readers, in using a little Sunday school boy to the conversion of a gentleman who thought he had something to do before he could be saved, and yet found that a child was in the secret, who could point the way to heaven in such a simple manner; and that way was through the open door, as Jesus says,
“I am the door; by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.”
The little boy could speak on the authority of what Jesus says, —
“‘I am the way, the truth, and the life,’ —and that’s the way to heaven, sir.”
A beautiful sight by the road side, a little boy and a tall gentleman talking about heaven and the way to get there.
It is so precious to have the mind and heart and memory stored with the Word of God for our peace and joy, and to be able to tell the unconverted what Jesus says.
“I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” Rom. 1:16.
ML 04/16/1933