Little Susie and her mother and father were attending a Bible conference. After supper was an open-air street preaching across the street and Susie’s daddy went to the meeting. Susie asked if she might go with him, but he told her she must stay by her mother.
However, Susie thought her own ideas better suited her purpose and, quietly stealing away from her mother’s side when no one was looking, she went to find her daddy. She hadn’t noticed which way her daddy went and she walked the opposite direction. On she went hoping to find him, but alas, he was nowhere to be seen.
Meanwhile the street meeting ended and daddy returned to the conference ground.
Little Susie walked about two miles down the road in search of her daddy. Then finally a car pulled up beside the curb and an elderly couple asked the little girl where she was going.
“To find my daddy,” she replied. “And where is your daddy?”
“At the meeting.”
At last after some questioning they took her to the police station.
Meanwhile, Mother and Daddy were frantic and everyone was searching for Susie. Finally they went to the police station and there was poor, disobedient little Susie. How glad she was to see her dear father and mother again!
You and I are just like Susie, dear young reader. We were lost, and the Lord Jesus had to come to seek us. He tells us in His Word, “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). Without Him we would all be lost and on our way to judgment. But the Good Shepherd loved us and died for our sins. When we meet Him and trust Him as our Saviour, then we are “found,” and He will never let us be lost again, for He keeps us safe forever.
ML-10/10/1976