A LITTLE GIRL about ten years of age found out a very wonderful thing. She discovered that though she was a sinner, and had often done very naughty thing’s, yet the Lord Jesus loved her, and so much that He had borne all her sins Himself on the Cross, and put them away forever, and that now she might go free. This made her so happy that she resolved to write and tell her Sunday school teacher the good news.
She was not used to letter writing, but she easily filled up the first page with her story, and then wondered what she would put on the next. As she sat thinking, with her hand on the paper, it suddenly struck her she could draw her hand, so she spread it out flat, and carefully drew round it. Then on the first finger she wrote,
“Jesus my Saviour.” On the second, “Jesus my Lord,” as He was her ruler. On the third,
“Jesus any Friend.” And on the fourth,
“Jesus my Shepherd.” And what do you think she wrote on the thumb? Just two short words:
“Little me.”
I wonder if you can guess why she chose the thumb to stand for herself? Why! because it alone can go to the fingers and touch them easily. She was just one poor little girl, but it took four fingers to express all that Jesus was to her.
And notice the order in which she wrote these titles of the Lord Jesus. First, He was her Saviour, the One who saved her from her sins and gave her a new life. Then, in the power of that life, she could following on that, He was her Friend, the One to whom she could tell all her troubles, and who would help her and sympathize with her. He was her Shepherd, the One who would lead her safely on through the way till He would have her at Home with Himself forever.
ML 08/15/1937