DANIEL worked for a grocer in Mexico. One day as he climbed up on a high ladder, he slipped and fell. He hurt himself so badly that the doctor told him he would never be any better.
While Daniel lay in the hospital, one who loved the Lord Jesus and wanted others to learn of Him too, came through the ward with leaflets and testaments. Daniel received a testament and at once began to read it with great interest. He read of the love of God in sending His Son down into this world to die for sinners. He read of all that Jesus suffered on the cross, and of how He was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father.” Rom. 6:44Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4). His heart was touched as he realized that He bore all the judgment, that he, Daniel, might be made fit to dwell with Him in His beautiful home above.
One night when he thought the other patients were asleep he cried aloud to God to pardon him, and to make him one of God’s own children. His prayer was heard and answered. Daniel’s life was changed, and for the two years before he died, he delighted to tell other patients of the precious Saviour he had found.
Daniel’s accident was used of the Lord to bring about the salvation of his precious soul but will you not, my reader, listen to the Good Shepherd’s voice saying, “Come unto Me” — and come? Hear His “still small voice” lest He may have to speak “loudly” as in Daniel’s case.
ML-02/04/1962