I went one day with a friend to visit a person known to her.
“All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
A bright smile lit up her face, and she said,
“Ah, I heard those words many years ago in my own land, and they made me very happy.”
Her face wore its bright look for some time, for she was saying softly to herself,
“Laid on Him, laid on Him.”
Perhaps her thoughts were wandering back to that far-off time when she first heard those words, and had believed that her sins were “laid on Him”—on the Lord Jesus Christ, “Who His Own Self bare our sins in. His Own Body on the tree” 1 Peter 2:2424Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter 2:24).
Many, many years beyond the allotted span of life, her memory retained the three words of the verse that had made her, and still kept her so very happy, “laid on Him.”
I often repeated them to her, when I saw her afterward, if only to watch for the bright smile they always brought to her face, making it, old as it was, look beautiful.
Has my reader been made “very happy” by knowing that his or her sins were “laid on Him?”
ML 02/25/1940