In the closing months of the Great War an order was issued by the Government of the United States granting permission to any American citizen who had given a son to the war to place a star on a window-pane of his house. Full advantage was taken of this privilege, and many a lowly cottage and stately mansion in town and country proudly displayed this emblem of service and sacrifice.
One evening a father was walking through the streets of New York with his little son, to whom he had explained the significance of the star in the window. The lad was intensely interested, and kept an eager look out for the distinctive mark. Every time he saw it he clapped his hands. “Look, Daddy,” he cried, “there’s a house that has given a son to the war! And there’s one with two stars! They must have given two sons. And there’s a house with no star at all.” Then, lifting his eyes still higher, he caught sight of the evening star shining in solitary splendor from the sky. A deeper note came into his voice as he cried, “Look, Daddy, God must have given His Son, for He has got a star in His window!”
Yes, indeed, there is a star in God’s window, and it speaks of a love and sacrifice transcending all human thought and speech.
John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Amid all the gloom of sin and sorrow and death this star shines with undimmed radiance, assuring us that the love of God in Christ is the one abiding reality which cannot be blotted out by life’s darkest mysteries or man’s deepest transgression.