SUSIE ran to a store on an errand for her mother, when a gentleman waiting in the store noticed she had a dirty face. As Susie did not know it, she was surprised when he told her. Then he pointed to a looking glass, in which she could see herself clearly; and so she saw her face was blacked with black lead.
The gentleman, sometime afterwards, was speaking to a number of young people, when he told them about little Susie, and said that we could all see ourselves in God’s looking glass. Then, holding tip a Bible, he said, “This is God’s looking-glass.”
When you want to see if your face is clean, what do you do? You look in a looking glass, do you not?
If you want to see yourself as God sees you, you must look in the Bible, God’s looking-glass; for there God has given some true pictures of us, so that if we look at them we see our very selves.
One picture is that of a leper, who had to cry of himself, “Unclean, unclean;” and “we are all as an unclean thing.” As there were baby lepers, so are there little sinners. We all were born in sin.
Susie, we were told, ran back at once and washed her face clean; but the leper could not cleanse himself, and you cannot wash your sinful self. It was the sense of this that led David to say to God, “Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
His blood can make the vilest clean;
His blood avails for me.
ML 03/17/1918