Abraham Lincoln was known to have a kind heart. One day he was traveling with a company of friends on horseback across the country. The birds sang merrily in the trees and bushes along the way.
As they passed by, they saw a baby bird which had fallen out of its nest and was fluttering and frightened on the ground. A moment later, Abe stopped his horse, telling his friends he would be back in a moment. Going back the short distance, while his friends watched him, he got off his horse, picked up the helpless little bird and very tenderly he set it in the bushes near its nest.
When Abe rejoined his friends, one of them laughed at him, saying, “Abe, why did you bother to stop, and delay the rest of us on account of a little bird?”
Abe replied: “I feel better now. I couldn’t sleep tonight if I had left that little bird to perish on the ground.”
The Lord Jesus was the kindest man that ever trod this earth. Not one little bird falls to the ground without His eye of love resting upon it. He tells us, “Ye are of more value than sparrows.” We read that He went about doing good, seeking to raise the fallen, lift up the brokenhearted, and to preach deliverance to the captives. Then He went on to die upon the cross to put our sins away.
But such a cruel death He died;
He was hung up and crucified;
And those kind hands that did such good,
They nailed them to a cross of wood.
Yet it was on that cross He answered to God for the sins of all those that believe on Him. Dear reader, are you one of those that believe?
“That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace, in His kindness toward us, through Christ Jesus.” Eph. 2: 7.
ML 06/04/1967