"Thou Shalt Find It After Many Days"
A short time ago I was traveling in a bus when a young person sat down beside me. She made several remarks and I thought seemed anxious to get into conversation. I wondered if the Lord might have a message for her through me, so I looked up to Him for guidance.
She told me that she had been visiting a friend who was in a hospital, and then remarked, "1 don't suppose you remember me. but I shall never forget you." I looked surprised, so she explained that she had attended some children's meetings which we had held when she was quite a child.
She went on to tell me that one evening at the close of the meeting I had asked her when she was going to accept the Lord Jesus as her Savior. "Those words stuck to me," she said, "and I never see you without thinking of them."
I then asked her if she had done this, and was pleased to find out that she had been saved for twelve years, and so we wert able to rejoice together. The incident she referred to had passed from my memory, but no doubt the Lord used those words as a link in the chain of blessing to her soul.
How often we find that the Lord uses the personal word to bring souls into blessing. We notice this especially with the children, and oh! what wisdom we need to speak the right word at the right time.
In these days when so many around us are turning away from the gospel message, may we be more earnest than ever in seeking to win the dear children for the Lord.
"Have you not a word for Jesus?
Will the world His praise proclaim?
Who shall speak if ye be silent?
Ye who know and love His name.
You, whom He hath called and
chosen, His own witnesses to be;
Will you tell your Gracious Master,
`Lord, we cannot speak for Thee'?"