A POOR blind man vainly sought to cross a crowded street of a great city. Thousands passed, but no o n e noticed the Door afflicted man or offered him assistance.
A gentleman, alighting from a carriage at the time, was about to enter a building when he noticed the blind man, and in a moment was at his side.
“Give me your hand and trust me,” he said, as he led him gently across the street.
“Thank you, sir,” said the grateful man, and the stranger quickly disappeared.
Who was he? The Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward VII.
What a sweet instance this is of faith. The blind man trusted, and the prince led the poor sightless one on to safety.
We would like to have our reader trust himself as implicitly—and to whom? It is a greater than any earthly Prince, however kind and powerful he may be. It is the Lord Jesus Christ, who by His surpassing love has proved Himself worthy of your faith.
What an apt picture is the blind man, in his helplessness, of all of us who are by nature weak, and sinful, and incapable of saving ourselves. Our help must come from Another, and what a gracious, and wonderful thing it is that God has looked upon us in our need, and has given One so well able to undertake for us, even His Son. He is the only one too who is able to save.
“Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:12.
The Lord Jesus is the mighty Saviour, but in order to benefit by His saving power, there must be on our part that trust and faith in Him; a yielding of ourselves to Him, as did the blind man to the Prince.
God loved the world, and gave His Son that you might be saved. Jesus gave Himself in love that you might be redeemed and washed from your sins in His blood.
Could you doubt such love? O, that the language of your heart might be,
“We have known and believed the love that God hath to us.” That is what brings salvation. A simple faith in what God has said. A simple acceptance of the Saviour He has provided. This will be counted to you for righteousness.
“O, how great is Thy goodness, which Thou hast laid up for them that fear Thee; which Thou hast wrought for them that trust in Thee, before the sons of men!” Psa. 31:19.
ML 10/23/1927