IN GUATEMALA one day a drunken peddler came to a school. Among many things he had to sell was a Bible. Never before having seen a Bible one of the senior girls bought it. She read it with great interest. When she came to Exodus 20, verses 4 and 5, she was filled with wonder. “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image... Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them...” Surely something must be wrong, for the place where she worshiped was full of images, and she had been taught to bow down to them! And yet God had commanded, “Thou shalt not make... thou shalt not bow down.”
She could not rest — she must find out the truth. In His goodness God led her to a Christian who was able to tell her the true way of salvation through trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ alone and in the work that He did on the Cross. She believed the Word and is now a happy Christian, no more bowing to images but to Him alone to whom, in a coming day, every knee must bow.
ML-12/13/1970