We have all heard many stories of persons—even boys and girls — receiving medals for bravery and self-sacrifice. Have you ever heard this one?
It was a large public school prize-giving. Many well-to-do and smartly dressed parents and relatives were assembled there. Among them was a very insignificant-looking and shabbily dressed little lady. If anyone noticed her at all, they probably asked themselves, “I wonder whose mother she is.” A bright boy had just received a medal. Without hesitation, he came down the aisle, singled out the shabby-looking little lady, and pinning the medal on her faded dress said, “That’s where that belongs!” She was his mother and had sacrificed every comfort for herself, to give him a good education and a start in life, and he was noble enough to recognize it.
SOMEONE sacrificed His life for YOU, dear young reader, that you might have Eternal Life, and the power to overcome difficulties and brave every peril and danger here, and to share heaven’s eternal glories with Him up there.
In that heavenly scene in Revelation 4 we read of the ransomed in heaven sitting before the throne, clothed in white; “and they had on their heads crowns of gold.” Then they are seen falling down before Him that sits upon the throne, and they cast their crowns before Him, saying, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power.”
Are you now giving Him the honor due to Him for the sacrifice He has made for YOU?
ML 09/03/1961