A FAMILY of boys who lived on the edge of our village were thrilled beyond words one day when someone presented them with a basket containing five fat roly-poly little puppies. What fun they had feeding their lively little pets and watching them roll and squirm as they played on the lawn.
But evil eyes were on those doggies as well as admiring ones, and one dark night three of them disappeared from their kennel.
The boys all felt sad, but Mother said: “Never mind, we will tell God about it, and He can, if He sees fit, let us know where to find them. Or if it is His way, He can send them back to us again.”
Three weeks later, on a fine suer morning, to their great surprise and joy the boys found the missing pups playing around their kennel, and they carried them to their mother. “God did it, my boys,” said Mother. “How I do not know, but I’m quite sure He had to do with their being returned. He is a great God, yet He is interested in our little things; He wants us to trust Him to leave them in His hands.”
The boys had confidence in their mother’s faith and were quite ready to believe that the return of the pups had not happened merely by chance.
Imagine their surprise when sometime later, Tom, a schoolmate, told one of the boys that he had been converted at a children’s tent meeting. He told them that he had bought the pups two weeks before from a tramp for only a few cents. Now that he was a Christian, and knowing what a Christian ought to be and how he should act, he felt he must bring back the pets which he knew to be theirs.
This incident was never forgotten by those boys. Their mother’s confidence in God, and the fact that conversion makes people want to be honest and to restore what is not their own, along with Tom’s fine testimony to what the grace of God had done for him, impressed them greatly. It was the means of their being led to the Saviour not long after.
So God turned it all about for blessing. And that is just what God is seeking to do for you, our dear reader. He wants to bless you, to make you happy in His love.
Will you not turn to the Lord Jesus like Tom did and confess Him to your friends as your Saviour? It will make you ever so happy, and you can be the means of making someone else happy. Don’t wait! Decide for Christ today, and you will never regret it.
ML-06/05/1966