A tiny boy, two years old, stood in a ray of sunshine and said gaily, “Me standing in God’s smile, Mamma.” His mother replied, “God grant that my dear little boy may so live as always to stand in God’s smile.”
Not long after, God called the mother home, and the little boy was left to the care of others. He grew to manhood and became much respected in the world. So great was his desire to get on, he forgot to put God first. But he was restless and unhappy and no longer did he enjoy the sunshine of His love.
One day, looking over some relics, he found a paper parcel, and opening it found a tiny pair of shoes and these lines in his mother’s handwriting: “These shoes were worn by my darling boy when he was two years of age. He stood in a ray of sunlight, saying, ‘Me standing in God’s smile, Mamma.’ God grant that my darling boy may so live as always to stand in God’s smile.” Through these lines God spoke to him. It came home to him how he had been long out of fellowship with God, in fact he had gotten far from Him. The memory of his mother’s faith and the impressions of his tender years came back to him. Humbly he turned back to the God of his mother, confessed the sin and failure of those years, and found the Saviour willing and ready to receive him back; for “him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37).
ML-02/27/1977