ELAINE was as busy as a little girl could be. She was painting a text this Saturday afternoon, but somehow she was not pleased with her first effort. The text was: “LOOK UNTO ME AND BE YE SAVED ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, FOR I AM GOD AND THERE IS NONE ELSE.” Isa. 45:2222Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. (Isaiah 45:22).
Elaine was not easily discouraged. She tore the page out of her book and threw it into the wastepaper basket and, like a wise little girl, she started all over again. Just then her father, who looked after the mail, came into the room and caught sight of a newspaper lying in the wastepaper basket. “Why is this here?” he asked. “It should have been sent out before this.”
Then looking at his watch he saw that he had just time to catch the mail, so he hastily folded it up and, unknown to him, Elaine’s crumpled text went with it. Soon it was on its way to a far-off land where Elaine’s uncle lived. He was sick in bed at the time and with joy he opened the paper from his dear old homeland. As he turned the pages Elaine’s text dropped out, and the sick man read the wonderful words as a glad message from God Himself: “LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED...”
They were a message of life to him, as they have been to many others, and they may be so to you, dear reader. “LOOK UNTO ME.” Elaine’s uncle did look by faith to Christ and found joy and peace believing. Will you not also LOOK and LIVE?
ML-10/02/1966