Most boys and girls find waiting rather difficult and uninteresting, but I am going to tell you what happened to me the other day when I had to wait in a parlor nearly two hours, and did not find it at all dull.
The lady of the house was busy, so could not come and speak to me, but sent her little girl Lucy. We began talking, and after a little while she showed me one of her great treasures, a tiny little china doll. To show you how small it was, I will tell you that a thimble would have been large enough for its cradle. Next she showed me a large beautiful doll dressed in white, and another one made of India rubber; besides these three, she told me she had four more upstairs. What a number of dolls happy little Lucy had. Presently I said,
“Lucy, what do you like best of all?”
Lucy stopped playing, and coming up to my side said with such a bright smile,
“Oh! I love Jesus best of everything, of course!”
Ah! this is what made Lucy so happy and joyful. She loved Jesus above everything. This little girl had all that a kind father and mother could give her: she was full of life, and so merry, yet there was something better than all this that she cared for. She loved Jesus best, “of course.”
Can you say you love Jesus best of all? I suppose you know about Him—how that He came to die for sinners. You know about His wonderful love, and that He, the only begotten Son of God, the Father’s well-beloved, was put upon the cross. Do you in your heart believe it was for your own sins He suffered and died there? The Lord Jesus looks at our hearts. He wants our first love to be given to Himself.
ML 08/01/1954