Robert was a lively boy, just fourteen years old, and like many other boys, and girls too, he was self-willed, and liked to have his own way.
It was the middle of winter and there had been lots of snow. In some places the drifts were very deep. Robert’s father and mother had warned him to keep to the roads and to the beaten paths. God’s Word says, “Children, obey your parents.” But Robert thought he knew better than his parents and he wanted to have some fun. So on his way home from school, he took another, way which, looked to be so much more fun than just walking along the road. He was wading through the deep snow and really having a good time, when all at once he fell right into a thick, snowdrift. And in a very few minutes it began to snow still more! Poor Robert was frightened, for he knew he had been disobedient. Besides, he couldn’t get out. There he was, all alone on the side of a hill, far away from his own home and nobody at hand to help him, out. So he set about to struggle, and struggle he did. But the harder he tried, the deeper his feet sank in the snow.
Before I finish the story, let me tell you that God has told us in His Word that there is one way to heaven. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the; life: no man cometh unto the Father, hut by Me.” John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6). If you have, not taken Jesus as your Saviour, you are not on the road to heaven. The road, you are on leads to hell although you may be just as happy as Robert was—until he fell into the snowdrift, and then he began to worry.
Robert had been struggling for quite a long time when he heard the bark of a dog. Soon he heard a man’s voice calling, “Who is there?”
“It’s Robert, and I’m stuck in the snow and can’t get out. Please get me out.”
It was a hard thing to do, but the man soon had Robert pulled out, and then what do you think he did? He set Robert up on his shoulders, and carried him right to his own home, where his wife soon had hot milk and some warm blankets ready for the shivering boy. You may be sure Robert thanked, them both very much, and it wasn’t long before he was taken home to his own father and mother.
What does this story make you think of? Weren’t you and I just like Robert in the snowdrift, lost and unable to save ourselves?
But the Lord Jesus came to die for sinners and if we cry out to Him as Robert did and tell Him that we are lost and want to be saved, He will do the rest.
ML 03/19/1950