Saturday afternoon Mother and little Betty went down town tether. It was in one of the big stores that Betty began to coax her mother: “Please, let’s go and see the toys.”
So they made their way through the busy store and into the elevator full of people. Soon they were three floors up and getting off into what seemed to Betty like fairyland!
An electric train with real lights and shrieking whistle was speeding along a tiny track through tunnels and under bridges. But in another corner were all the lovely dolls and playhouses, and Betty felt she would like to stay there all day just looking at everything. Wandering from counter to counter, she had a wonderful time.
There was one large beautiful doll house that looked almost real enough to live in.
“Oh, look, Mother, isn’t this nice!” she exclaimed, as she peeked in a window here and there. She wanted her Mother to come and see too.
But Mother didn’t answer, so Betty looked quickly around. Why, Mother was nowhere to be seen.
Oh, where was she? Where had she gone?
There were lots of people all around, and Betty thought perhaps Mother might be behind someone, so she began calling out, “Mother! Mother!”
But Mother did not come, and in a few moments Betty grew frightened and began to cry. “Mother! Mother!” she cried louder and louder.
She was lost, lost! What should she do? And sitting down on a small chair she sobbed and sobbed aloud with all her heart.
Suddenly she heard a familiar voice: “Betty! Betty!”
“Here I am, Mother! Oh, I’m so glad you found me—I was so scared —I thought, perhaps...”
But she didn’t have time to finish, for Mother’s arms were around her hugging her so tightly in her arms.
Little Betty was really lost before she knew it! Yes, she was! But at first she wasn’t frightened for she was having such a good time, and she hadn’t discovered that she was all alone until she looked around for her mother.
Dear boys and girls, some of you are lost—and you don’t know it! Perhaps you are happy and having a good time because you haven’t realized it yet. But you are lost in sin, and far, far away from God.
Yet Someone is looking for you, and we wonder if He has found you yet? Listen and you will hear His voice saying, “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:1010For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10). He is waiting to hear your cry, “Lord Jesus, save me.”
ML-01/21/1979