SOME gentlemen were one day setting out on a dangerous excursion, when the son of one of them, a young lad, was seized with a desire to accompany his father. He pleaded hard to be taken.
“Why, my boy, of what use could you be?” returned the father. “What could you do?”
“I could obey,” was the ready answer.
It was a great argument in his favor; a person who can do simply as he is told is always useful to one accustomed to command. The boy won his way and proved of the greatest service to the little party.
The Scriptures speak of “the obedience of faith.” Some people seem to think the way of salvation too easy; it may be said to them as it was to the leper Naaman of old, “If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then when he saith, ‘Wash, and be clean?” We are offered eternal life as a gift simply on the ground of what Christ has done; salvation “full, free, and present,” for nothing; without works or deserving’s of our own;— “without money and without price.” These are God’s terms. Our minds must agree to them, our hearts be submitted to Jesus in “the obedience of faith.” Blessed obedience, blessed hope, blessed peace which flows from trust in Jesus. Children, have you so learned to obey?
“Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near.” Isa. 55:3.
ML 04/16/1916