TWO small boys were so eager to go skating, now that the pond was frozen over, and they decided to play hooky from school. When they did not show up for classes, the teacher sent the other boys out to search for them, and for a while no trace of the missing boys could be found.
“I saw them going along by the river there,” said a girl, pointing to footsteps in the snow alongside the half-frozen stream.
“That’s a clew,” said the boys. “Let’s follow it up.” So off they ran, tracing the four footprints right along till they reached the pond near the mill. There the two truants were found enjoying themselves on the ice. They were astonished when the three other boys made their appearance.
“Who told you we were here. How did you think of coming to look for us here?” asked one of the boys.
“These told us,” answered the other boy, pointing to the footprints in the snow.
“I never thought of that,” said one of the boys to his companion. “I wish we had blocked them out as we went along.”
That would have been a difficult if not impossible job, but not half so difficult as it would be to blot out the footprints of sin and wandering away from God. Do you ever think, young sinner friend, that along life’s pathway, you have left footprints, which tell of your sin? You cannot blot them out. And there they will stand till that great day of judgment, if Someone does not blot them out for you. I will tell you One who can. Listen: “I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” Isaiah 43:2525I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. (Isaiah 43:25).
Think of the blessed Lord Jesus wanting to do that for you. All who trust in Him as their own Saviour have their sins all blotted out forever by His precious blood. And divine righteousness and beauty cover them perfectly.
ML-11/15/1964