A SHORT time ago I was passing along a crowded thoroughfare, when a little girl of not more than five or six years of age, stepped right in front of me, and said, in a tone that expressed the fullest confidence.
“I want to cross the road, please.”
She evidently did not intend to take any refusal, for seizing my hand, she smilingly pointed to the opposite side of the street, where I saw a large, open gate leading to a recreation ground a short distance away.
I need hardly say that I undertook the charge, and soon we both stood safely on the other side. Then, without waiting to speak, my small friend bounded away, swinging her hoop. to join her friends in the playground.
I could not get her dear little face out of my mind that day, and wondered if she had trusted the Lord Jesus in the same simple way she trusted me to lead her across that busy street.
Dear children, salvation can be had just as simply. There is nothing for you, a needy, anxious soul, to do to obtain it, but to put your simple trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and His work on the cross for your sins. But it cost the Lord Jesus a very great deal to provide this salvation for you.
The twenty-second Psalm tells what His feelings were when He was bearing the judgment of God. It was on the cross of Calvary that He paid the redemption price for poor sinners; and in those three hours of darkness. He drained the cup of judgment, so that His redeemed ones might be fitted to dwell with Him forever. So on the ground of that work, He can say.
From this verse we may see that any little boy or girl, who believes in the Lord Jesus with the heart, is the Father’s gift to His Son; and great indeed is the value the Saviour sets upon such gifts, and He will never—no never—cast out any who come to Him.
Come, dear children, take the hand of the Lord Jesus Christ, which He is holding out to you, and He will take you safely through this world of sin and trial, to His glorious home to live with Him forever.
ML 10/12/1924