Little Amy seemed to want to hurry home from Sunday school. faster than ever. She was always an attentive little girl, knew her verse and loved to sing the hymns. This day wn no exception, for she had paid good attention, but she did want to hurry home. Let us follow her and see why.
Just as soon as she stepped inside she called for her Daddy. She climbed up on his knee and smiled and said three wonderful words. Could you truthfully say them too? Amy said, “Daddy, I’m saved.” That surely was a wonderful thing to happen to Amy, but her Daddy didn’t, seem to think much about it. He looked a hit puzzled and then Amy told him a little more about what the teacher had said in class, and then slipped away to her own room.
“Whatever does she mean?” her puzzled Daddy asked himself. I must ask her what she means by “saved,” For you see Amy’s father and mother knew very little about the Bible, and had never felt their need of a Saviour.
After supper, just as Daddy was about to ask Amy what she meant by being saved, Amy spoke up and said, “Daddy, would you come to meeting with me tonight?”
“Yes, my girl, I think I will.”
And so it happened that Amy and her Daddy slipped quietly into the little gospel hall, and waited for the meeting to start. There on the front wall was a big text with these words, “Look unto Me, and be ye saved.” Over and over again Amy’s father read those words. He didn’t seem to hear the preacher’s message at all.
When they reached home again, he said to Amy.
“How did you get saved, Amy?” “I just looked to Jesus, and He saved me, Daddy.”
“What do you mean, Amy? You can’t see Him.”
“But isn’t it just like trusting? Just like I look to mother for my food, and I look to you for my clothes. So I just looked to Jesus for my salvation, and I know I’m saved.”
That was just what was needed. Daddy bowed his knees, just as Amy had done, and by faith he “looked to Jesus.” “Look into Me, and be ye saved.” Isaiah 15:22.
“There is life in a look at the crucified One;
There is life at this moment for thee;
Then look, sinner, look unto Him and be saved,
Unto Him who was nailed to the tree.”
ML 09/02/1951