Poor doggie hurt his leg. Off little Cecil hurried with his to the blacksmith, who always seemed to know how to doctor sick animals. The kind smith showed his sympathy by looking at the injured leg and telling the little master what to do for it.
How good it is to see sympathy and kindness expressed. To find the fullest expression of love and sympathy, we must think of God’s love in sparing His Son from His side to die for us, and, look at the cross where the Lord Jesus gave Himself to bear our punishment from the hand of a righteous and holy God.
If we want to show true sympathy and love that will be acceptable to God, we must first know what our own heart is by nature, and acknowledge Jesus as the only One to meet our need. Then we can seek to show to others the love He has shown to us.
ML 06/09/1940