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 of age, and his father had been telling him a Bible story. He also taught him to sing the hymn—“Safe in the Arms of Jesus.”
“Are you in the arms of Jesus, Daddy?”
“Yes, my boy; I am.”
“And is Mommy?”
“Yes; Mommy is there too.”
Hughie sat quietly for a minute thinking; then looking up into his father’s face, he said, “Jesus has 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 were, and how strong they are too, for he had trusted himself to Jesus, and he can sing now, knowing what the words mean:
Safe in the arms of Jesus;
Safe on His gentle breast.
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 mighty everlasting arms, safe to heaven.
ML-05/15/1977