LITTLE Maisie was very tired and fussy, so her mother stopped her work and sat down. She took her little girl up in her arms and Maisie felt so much better with her mother’s arms clasped about her.
Maisie’s mother was tired too, and as she picked up her small daughter she sighed. Just recently her husband had died and she was lonely too, as Maisie knew.
“Mother, don’t you want to be holded too?” asked the little girl.
Tears came to the mother’s eyes, and she did not reply.
“Mother, God will hold you, won’t He?” she asked.
What a lovely message from the lips of a little girl! Every child loves to be held in mother’s arms when tired or upset, and we who are older know something of that feeling of loneliness, and like to feel that we are loved and wanted too!
There is One who loves you and me very much, and He wants our company. He wants to hold us in His arms, and so securely too that He will never let us go. But there is one thing that hinders. We are sinners, arid our wills are opposed. We like to have our own way and sometimes the Lord has to let us become tired and bowed down with grief before we will turn to Him. Then when we come, acknowledging that we are lost sinners, when we feel our deep, deep need and cry to Him for mercy, He saves us. “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7). And oh, what mighty arms are His! He will never let go one whom He died to redeem. As the good shepherd He gave His life for the sheep, and now He is risen again and seated at the right hand of God in heaven. He is coming again too, to receive His own to be forever with Himself. He says of those who are His; “I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.” John 10:2828And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (John 10:28).
Messages of God’s Love 10/30/1955