“Safe In The Arms of Jesus”
Hughie sat on his father’s knee one Sunday afternoon when all the other children were away at Sunday school. He was only five years old. His father had been telling him a Bible story and teaching him to sing the hymn, “Safe in the Arms of Jesus.”
“Are you in the arms of Jesus, Daddy?” asked Hughie.
“Yes, my dear boy,” said his father, “I am.”
“And is Mother?” again asked the little fellow.
“Yes, Mother is there too,” his father replied.
Hughie sat thinking for a minute, and looking up into his father’s face, he said, “Jesus must have big arms to hold so many; I will be there too.”
In after years, when Hughie was a little older, he knew better how “big” the arms of Jesus are, and how strong they are too, for he trusted himself to Jesus. Now he can sing knowing what the words mean:
Safe in the arms of Jesus;
Safe on His gentle breast.
There by His love o’er shadowed,
Sweetly my soul shall rest.
Yes, dear boys and girls, the Lord Jesus has strong arms. He carries the lambs of His flock—that is, the little ones who believe on Him—in these Nighty, everlasting arms, safe to heaven. Are you “safe in the arms of Jesus”; or do you refuse to allow Him to take you up into those arms?
ML-08/23/1964