IN A small village a group of children with their fathers and mothers had gathered in a Sunday school room in a little gospel hall. The room was filled, but it was all dark inside for someone was showing lantern slides.
Half way through a knock came at the door. Then one of the men went to the front and announced: "Little Linda Jones is lost. Her parents and the police have been looking everywhere for her. If any one knows where)she might be will he please go to the door and tell the friend waiting there?"
There was some whispering but no one moved, and the man who showed the pictures went on with his talk.
After the last picture, when the lights were turned on, a friend noticed little Linda Jones sitting on a front seat. "Why, Linda," she said, "didn't you hear them asking for you? Why didn't you speak up and tell them you were here?"
"Did they mean me?" the little girl asked in surprise. "They said Linda Jones was lost, but I'm not lost. I thought it was some other Linda Jones."
How many there are like little Linda — lost but they don't know it. They don't think they are lost, but they are lost to God, in this world's darkness. They have not seen their need of the Saviour, they have heard God's Word, but have not believed it. They have not applied it to themselves.
"God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." John 3:1717For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:17). "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). If we are without Christ, before God we are LOST sinners. We need to turn to the Lord to be saved.
Messages of the Love of God 11/23/1975