Little Sister lost — and only three years old! At first when dinner time came and she was nowhere to be seen, they thought she might he in a neighbor’s garden, but when calling brought no response, and the minutes flew by, it was time to be alarmed. Would she be up the street, or down? around this corner or that? and for over an hour, her mother searched, walking up one street and down the next—asking everyone she met, had they “seen a little girl in a red dress?”
Where could she be? Finally two boys said they had seen a little girl answering the description—down that way, pointing to an intersection at the bottom of the hill. Anxiously her mother hurried on, crying to the Lord all the way to care for little sister and help to find her.
There she is at last!—being carefuy led away from the busy corner by a kindly passer-by. How the mother’s heart leaped for joy at the sight of her darling!
On questioning the child, it was found that she did not consider herself lost; she was just having a good time!
What a picture this is of each one of us! We wandered away from God, with no thought of Him—just taking our own way, and enjoying ourselves, regardless of the consequences. But, like the mother who anxiously searched for her darling, the Saviour is seeking,
“For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:10.
He left His bright home in heaven above, and came down to this world of sin— “to seek and to save that which was lost”—that is, to seek out you and me, who were lost in sin. This cost Him His life for we had all been taken prisoners by Satan, and the price to redeem us was His precious blood. So now it can be said of all those who have put their trust in this precious Saviour,
“Ye were as sheep going astray, but are now returned unto the Shepherd.” 1 Peter 2:25.
“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.” Isaiah 53:6.
He says “Come unto Me.”
Will you not come now?
ML 08/27/1944