I just love to see boys and girls happy, don’t you? But sometimes we see them crying, sometimes pouting, and, even lying in real pain on a sick bed. And grown-up folks too, are sometimes happy and sometimes sorrowful. Let me tell you of one time when I found a dear old lady very happy; so happy that I was surprised.
I had been walking along a hot and dusty road, and had passed many little huts in which people lived who were very poor. Some of them looked so sad that it made me feel very sorry for them, but all poor people are not sad. In front of one hut sat an old lady with a very happy smile on her face. Her hut was just as little and bare as the rest, and her clothes were just as worn and faded, but her face was so very different.
She looked up at me as I stopped, and then I just had to know why she smiled so.
“Are you happy today?” I asked her.
“Yes, I am happy every day.”
“And what is it that makes you so happy?”
“Because I have Jesus here,” she said, placing her wrinkled hand upon her Bible. “And I have Jesus here,” she said again, laying her hand upon her bosom. “And I have Jesus up there,” pointing up to the sky.
I cannot tell you the old lady’s name, for I do not know it, but I am sure that her name is written in heaven, and that I shall see her again some day.
What makes you happy? Sunshine? toys? friends? We surely ought to thank God for all the good things that He gives to us to enjoy, but I want to ask you, can you place your own hand over your heart, and say, “I have Jesus here?”
He wants to come into your heart and to wash away all your sins and bring happiness into your life now and forever.
“BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR, AND KNOCK: IF ANY MAN HEAR MY VOICE, AND OPEN THE DOOR, I WILL COME IN TO HIM, AND WILL SUP WITH HIM, AND HE WITH ME.” —Revelation 3:2020Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20).
ML 02/07/1954