Percy sat on his mother’s knee looking through the album, and naming his brothers and sisters, as he picked out from among others, their portraits. At length he came to his own which was the last in the book, and it engaged him for a long while. Then the book was closed, and Percy’s mother said,
“I have another picture of Percy in God’s album, which I would like him to see. It does not show his pretty dress, or his chubby face and bright eyes, but it lets him see what kind of a heart he has. God says that Percy’s heart is “desperately wicked,” and so vile and black that God is displeased with it. All the ‘Thoughts of his heart are evil continually,’ and sometimes that wicked heart sends up cross words into his mouth, and his lips utter them.”
“Shut the Book, Mother, I don’t like that photograph,” said the child impatiently, “the other one is better.”
There are many boys and girls, and men and women too like Percy. They don’t like the description that God gives of them in His Word. It is a very humbling one, no doubt, but it is true, and God has given it there that you might learn, by looking at yourself, how great a sinner you are in God’s sight.
“There is none righteous, no, not one.”
“There is none that seeketh after God.”
“There is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
“All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:10,11,12,2310As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. (Romans 3:10‑12)
23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23).
If only you will accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your precious Saviour, He will wash away all your sins in His blood shed on the cross, and make you fit to walk with Him here, and will take you to live with Him in His happy Home forever.
ML 09/10/1944