Mrs. James arrived home later than she had expected to, so she hurried from her car to the front door. She was holding the house key in her hand just ready to unlock the door when she heard a small boy’s voice calling, “Help me! Help me! Will you help me?” Mrs. James was rather startled since she had not seen anyone around when she pulled her car into the driveway. Setting her purse down on the doorstep, she started towards the front sidewalk when she heard the voice again call, “Help me, please.” There she found Timmy, a little boy from down the street, almost hidden by a large evergreen tree, and he was in real trouble!
Mrs. James arrived home just in time to hear Timmy’s call for help, but the Lord Jesus is able to hear our cry at all times. He tells us to “Call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee.” Psalms 50:1515And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Psalm 50:15).
Poor Timmy! There was his bicycle turned over on its side and one of his long shoelaces was wound many, many times around the pedal. All poor Timmy could do was to stand beside his bicycle with his foot all twisted to the side! There was no way a little five-year-old boy could get that tangled shoelace off the bicycle pedal.
Mrs. James worked quickly, pulling the shoelace this way and that way, until it finally came free of the pedal. Timmy was so happy to get his foot free from that twisted position and to be able to ride away on his bicycle again, and Mrs. James was glad she had returned home just when Timmy needed help.
How like Timmy each sinner is—tangled in sin and completely unable to help himself. The Lord Jesus Christ is able and willing to free from sin all who ask Him to wash their sins away. He is the only One who can do that, “For there is none other Name under heaven... whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:1212Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12). Mrs. James was able to free Timmy from his tangle, but so could Mr. James if he had been there, or their neighbors, the Richards. But the Lord Jesus Christ is the only Saviour. He died and shed His blood to wash away sins. Won’t you accept Him as your Saviour right now and be free from the tangle of sin?
ML-08/22/1982