HOW pleased the little sister seems, to have her brother draw her picture. No doubt she thinks when he is done she will see a true picture of herself with dolly on her lap. (You know she has never seen herself.) But if we judge from the few marks already made on the slate, it will not be a very true picture. You children all like to have your pictures taken, and to receive those of your friends.
I want to tell you of an aged servant of the Lord, who was asked by a young man for his picture.
“O, yes!” he said, “you will find it in full length in the Third chapter of Romans.”
Do you know what he meant? Of course, he did not mean that he would see a picture that would show how he looked to the natural eye. I think he meant that there would he seen a word-picture of himself, and this is the way God, who looks on your heart, sees every one of us.
I wish you would open your Bibles at Rom. 3, beginning at Verse 10, and read those solemn words. In verse 12 we have, “THERE IS NONE THAT DOETH GOOD, NO, NOT ONE.” Rom. 3:1212They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. (Romans 3:12).
When we bow our heads and say, “It is true, that ugly picture is mine,” then God can receive and bless us through the sacrifice of His beloved Son, and put His beauty upon us.
ML 12/12/1937