A little girl who intended to be a Christian when she grew older, came home one day bringing a bouquet of beautiful fresh carnations for her sick mother.
The nurse admired their loveliness, and then said— “We will not take them to mother just yet. They are too fresh and beautiful. We will wait a few days till they have begun to fade and wither.”
The little girl was surprised and almost angry, and asked nurse to explain what she meant.
“Is not this what you are doing to the loving Saviour? Are you not keeping to yourself the beauty and freshness of your young life, and waiting to offer Him the faded blossoms from which all the freshness has departed?”
The girl felt the force of the reproof, and she accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her Saviour, and was happy in Him.
ML 02/21/1943