A POOR but godly farmer went out to bring home his cow one wintry night, when he found a poor boy lying half-frozen in the snow. He lifted him up, carried him in, and nursed him as his own child.
The wanderer was an orphan, and had no home. The aged farmer had barely enough to supply his own wants, and feared he would be unable to support him.
"But I cannot leave you, you saved my life, I'll work for you for nothing," said the boy as the tears gushed clown his cheeks. And he did remain with the aged man, to work for him for love's sake, for many a year.
Thus it is with the sinner who has been saved by Christ, whose love has won his heart. Have you been brought from the far-off land, where the sinner's life is spent in sin, back to God? Have sin and Satan lost their hold upon you? Can you say in very truth this day, God has loved me, and redeemed me by the blood of His Son, and now I am His, and by Him I will abide, and with Him I shall dwell forever? This is a mark of true conversion.
Messages of God’s Love 4/29/1934