One cold evening I had business in a police station in England. It was a noisy place, the men’s boots clanking heavily on the stone floor, and loud voices, sometimes very unpleasant ones too, occupied in the business of keeping order.
Off in one corner on a hard bench, lay a little boy, fast asleep. He was a well-dressed little fellow, plump and rosy. He did not move, even when the kindly policeman turned his flashlight so that I could see his face more plainly.
“He’s lost,” said the policeman. “There’ll be someone after him soon.”
I could not help him, for I did not know his name, but I do know the names of many lost little boys and girls, and older ones too, today in this world. Many of them are like that little sleeping boy—they don’t know, or don’t care, that the Saviour is seeking His lost ones, and longing to bring them to His home above. Do you know, my reader, that you are a lost sinner, quite unable to get home to heaven, dependent entirely upon the Saviour to find you?
Somewhere I suppose an anxious mother was searching for her little son, but she did not come while I was there, and I did not see her joy in finding him. But I’m sure the little fellow was glad enough, among all those strange faces, to welcome the dear face of his mother when he wakened.
I don’t suppose, I know, that my Saviour is seeking the lost little ones in the world today. I know that “the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:1010For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10). What a welcome awaits you, if you will but open your eyes to Him! Perhaps peace and plenty are around you, dear sinner, or perhaps trouble and fear, but if you are lost in sin, then the Lord Jesus, the Saviour of sinners, longs to save you and give you joy, here and in heaven, such as you have never known before.
ML 05/02/1954