NOT very long ago, James Clarence Snape, a blind man, sought to achieve notoriety by walking alone across England, from Blackpool to Margate.
The day after he had started upon his long tramp he wished to inquire the way to the next town. Hearing a movement close at hand, he asked “Is this the right road for Freckleton? The answer was an unexpected one:" Moooo-oo." He had asked his way of a cow!
You smile at the mistake, pardonable in a blind man, but what are we to think of the multitudes, who inquire the way to heaven of guides that are just as useless and untrustworthy as counselors as the cow?
Thousands say to Ritualism: "Can you tell us the way to heaven?" Thousands more ask the question of Morality. Some are foolish enough to take their own hearts as their advisers.
But you might just as profitably consult a cow as seek counsel in any of these ways as to your eternal salvation.
You remind me, perhaps, that the man was blind. No one who had the use of his eves would ask guidance of an animal.
True: but does not this suggest the reason why so many seek help and direction from untrustworthy sources? They must be blind!
So indeed they are. The Scriptures declare that Satan, "the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not." (2 Cor. 4:4.) He has put a thick, blindfolding bandage across their eyes, "lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ... should shine unto them.”
If J. C. Snape could have read the words upon the finger-posts along the road, he would never have addressed his inquiry to the cow. And if you had spiritual eyesight to perceive the plain, unmistakable directions given by God in His Word, you would never be guilty of the folly of seeking salvation in any other way.
Thank God! He openeth the eyes of the blind. May He open your eyes that you may see the true and only way of blessing while I put it before you in the very words of God.
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“Every man at his best state is altogether vanity." "For we must needs die, and are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again." "There is no difference: for all have sinned." "There is none righteous, no, not one." “But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.' "Christ died for the ungodly." “Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture” . "God raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory." "Be it known unto you therefore, men arid brethren, that through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by Him all that believe are justified from all things." "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." “Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him." H. P. E.