You can guess why the little boy in the picture holds up his five fingers. Yes, he was just five years old on the day the picture was taken.
These five, wee, chubby fingers remind me of a very wonderful Name that has just five letters in it —J E S U S. This is the name that means “Saviour”, the name of the One Who said,
Five years before the picture was taken this little lad was born into his parent’s family, and we know his coming gave them great joy. But think of the greater joy God, the Father, has when such little ones are born into HIS family! “How can that be?” I hear someone say. Oh, it is so simple! If one believes that Jesus died for him, and by simple faith takes Jesus as his own Saviour, then he is “born of God,” or “born from above” —yes, born into God’s own family for Jesus Exactly Suits Us Sinners and though we were all born in sin, because Adam, our first father sinned and we, ourselves have sinned more than any of us know, yet,
ML 08/15/1943