Mrs. Livingstone offered her last gospel tract to a little boy playing in the sand, and then boarded the bus for home. It was a long journey home, and she was tired. She had spent the afternoon walking among the crowds on the sandy beach, offering little Sunday school papers and tracts to the many boys and girls, and she was happy. It was so good to know the Lord Jesus truly loved her and had died for her, and it was good too, to have the privilege of speaking a little word for Him here and there.
“Your fare, please.”
The driver waited patiently while Mrs. Livingstone hunted rather fraically through her purse for the return portion of her bus ticket. This was embarrassing!
“I’m sorry, Sir, but I just don’t seem to be able to find my ticket at all.”
“That’s too bad, lady. Perhaps you could wait for the next bus, and maybe you will find it in the meantime.”
So Mrs. Livingstone stepped back down and watched the bus drive away. Then she really hunted. and prayed, but still she just could not find that ticket. And worse still, she had absolutely no money to buy another.
She sat on one of the benches nearby, and began to think — and pray. She thought of that wonderful verse, “But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Phil. 4:1919But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19).
She knew that God had allowed her to lose that ticket, and she knew He was watching her. With a heart filled with faith, she picked up a stick and began to write in the sand, the words, “GOD IS LOVE.”
Just as she was tracing the last letter “E” something turned up in the sand. She stooped and picked it up. It was a coin — and a much more valuable coin than was needed to take her home. It brought tears of joy to her eyes to see what the Lord had done for her, and she stood and looked at those wonderful words with a heart overflowing with praise. “GOD IS LOVE.”
God has shown His wonderful love to you and me in the greatest possible way. He has given us something that is worth far more than all the coins in all the world, in order that we might know His great love.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3: 16.
That blessed One whom God gave, the Lord Jesus Christ, died on the cross of Calvary in our guilty place. God’s holiness demanded a sacrifice for sin, and so He bore all the judgment for all the sins of all who believe that we might be saved from an eternal hell.
ML 06/24/1956