ONE day, when I was a boy, I was out for a picnic with some friends. When we were tired of playing games, one of the grown-up men asked us if we thought we could walk straight, if we were blindfolded.
Of course, we all said. “Yes”: and I expect you think you could too.
So he made one of us stand facing a tree, then tied a handkerchief over his eyes, and told him to walk till he was told to stop. He did the same with each of us in turn.
When it came to my turn, I started off feeling quite sure I should not be so silly as to walk crooked like the others, but after he had told me to stop I took the handkerchief off, and found I had turned quite a long way to the left instead of walking straight to the tree. Some of the others had turned to the left, and some to the right, but no one had walked quite straight.
Next time you are out in a field you stand facing a tree some way off, and get a friend to blindfold you; then try to walk to the tree. You will find, I am sure, that you cannot walk straight.
Now, dear boys and girls, I have told this story because of the lesson in it. We cannot walk straight unless we are looking at the object towards which we are walking. If we want to follow the Shepherd, we must look at Him. I mean that we must read about Jesus in God’s Word, and think about Him, and ask God to teach us more about Him. If we do this, we shall grow more like Him, but do not forget that we can never be like Him unless we believe that He gave His life for us.
If we believe on Him, then one day we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
ML 03/16/1924