Walking one afternoon, I noticed a clergyman coming towards me.
“Perhaps he will offer me a tract,” I thought; but as he passed me he said, in a low, deep voice,
“Seek God!”
I walked on, thinking of those words. Were they right? Could I, in my lost condition, seek God? Could the lost sheep find its way back to the fold? if so, then no need for the shepherd to go and seek it. And what need for a man who loses his way to cry out, as many have wisely done, “Lost! Lost!” if he could find his way home again?
“No, we are all, by nature, lost, and unable to seek God apart from His grace, for it is the Holy Spirit who shows us we are lost. So I thought it would have been better if he had said,
“The Lord is seeking you!”
But I am very thankful to tell you, my dear young readers, that the Lord has sought and found me. Can you say so too?
“He sought me, and He found me; Yes, Christ has done it all!”
ML 09/18/1938