A LITTLE boy was asked by his mother, one cold morning, to go on an errand. He did not wish to go, and so pretended that he could not find his boots.
His mother saw him looking for them, but he looked everywhere except where he thought they were likely to be found. His heart was not in it. Does he not remind us of those who only pretend to be in earnest about salvation, and who look for it everywhere except to Him in whom alone it is to be found? May you be able, with a sense of your need of the Saviour, to say, as a little girl five years old said, when seeking the Saviour’s blessing, “For I really want it.”
It is worth being in earnest about. If it were only for the joy and peace it would bring you in this world, it would be worth every effort you could make to secure it; but when it is eternal happiness in heaven with Jesus which you may obtain, surely you cannot be too much in earnest in seeking that. And yet, from the way some act, you would think salvation was scarcely worth taking—far less being anxious or earnest about.
ML-11/18/1962