'I’m sure that the reader of this paper would not venture to guess how many steps you have taken already in your lifetime. It would surely be impossible to count them! Perhaps you have watched while a little child was coaxed to take his first step. It seemed like such an adventure to the little fellow, but at last he tried it and took one — two — three steps, and then had a tumble. The father and mother were so excited and happy, and told all their friends that baby had learned to walk. "Little Jacob has just learned to walk," they say, "and he's getting into mischief every day!"
Then sometimes you will see an old man walking very slowly and carefully along the street, leaning on a strong cane, and perhaps stopping every few steps for a rest. Have you ever wondered how many steps those weary feet have taken since they first ventured out of mother's arms?
I can think of some very foolish of some and dangerous steps that my feet have taken, and I can think of other steps which have made me stop and think very seriously. I have stood with both feet in the Dominion of Canada, and then, just one step into the United States! That sounds like a very big step, but it wasn't, for it is a very little step between the two countries. Then I was able to turn around and step back into Canada again.
Long years ago King David said, "There is but a step between me and death." This is a step which most boys and girls never think about, but you know that someday you will most surely step from time into eternity, and you will not be able to step back again. Can we be very, very sure where that last step shall lead us? Yes, thank God, we can be sure. There is a most important step which we must make in our life if we wish to step from time into the happy presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. That step is to come to Jesus as a lost and guilty sinner, and to accept Him as your own precious Saviour. We find that step, and its happy result, in John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24). "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall. not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." isn't that a most wonderful step — from death unto life! Have you taken that step yet?
"Only a step to Jesus! Then why not take it now? Come, and thy sins confessing, To Him, thy Saviour bow. Only a step! only a step! Come, He waits for thee; Come, and thy sins confessing, Thou shalt receive a blessing; Do not reject the mercy He freely offers thee."
Messages of the Love of God 2/10/1952