“When I was a little boy about three years old, I went out to play one sunny day in springtime. I had my rubber boots on and decided to cross the road to play on the other side. It was only a dirt road and the spring rains had now turned it into thick mud. I knew little about mud, so off I went until halfway across and then I found that I was stuck.
After a stiff struggle I got one foot free, only to find that the other one had stuck deeper than ever in the mud. I tried to get it free but both feet became very thoroughly stuck.
What a picture this is of many who have started out innocently enough, only to sink into the mire of sin! The harder they try to get away from their sins, the deeper they sink into them.
As I stood in the middle of the road crying, because I did not know how to get out, a lady who was passing saw me. She came to where I was, picked me up out of the mud and set me down safely at my home. How thankful I was to be out of the mud!
Do you want to be lifted out of your sins which will drag you down to hell? Then cry unto the Lord Jesus Christ and He will deliver you.
“I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.” Ps. 40:1, 2.
ML 05/20/1956