MR. JACKSON was waiting for a friend on a busy street in the city of Chicago. It was a hot day, and nearly everyone passing by looked tired and thirsty. But there was one person who attracted Mr. Jackson’s attention. He was a little Chinese lad and he looked so hot and so lonely standing all by himself. With quick compassion, Mr. Jackson slipped into the corner store and brought out a fine big ice cream cone. Would you know what to do with an ice cream cone on a hot day? I think you would!
But this little fellow didn’t seem too sure about it. It was offered to him with a big smile, but it was refused. The poor lad didn’t know much English, and he just said “No,” and turned his head. But Mr. Jackson was not so easily put off, and he tried again. Apparently the boy had never tasted ice cream, and he wasn’t going to take that strange looking thing from anybody, no matter how kind he might look.
Mr. Jackson was puzzled. At last, with a quick push he tried to jab it in the boy’s mouth, but the poor fellow ducked, and ended up with a patch of ice cream on the end of his nose! In just a moment the ice cream melted a bit and slid down into his mouth. What do you think happened then? The thirsty little fellow looked up with a big smile and said just one word:
“More.”
With a hearty laugh Mr. Jackson handed him the whole cone, and then hurried on about his business. But he has not forgotten the story. And I think it has a lesson for us too. Someone is offering us a wonderful gift. The Lord Jesus is offering us salvation and pardon and a home in heaven. Have you turned away from these wonderful gifts? Have you turned away from the Lord Jesus Himself? He watches you with a loving heart as you read this paper, and He wants to win you for Himself. I’m sure you don’t know how wonderful it is to have Jesus as your own Saviour, just as our little Chinese friend didn’t know how wonderful an ice cream cone tasted on a hot day. But when he got a taste he said, “More.” And those of us who know the Lord Jesus as our Saviour have found Him to be everything that we need and want, and we receive more and more of Himself and His gifts of love.
“More about Jesus would I know, More of His grace to others show; More of His saving fullness see, More of His love who died for me.”
Messages of God’s Love 6/12/1955