What is your greatest wish, Gracie?” Two happy girls were playing on the street, when suddenly the older one, Agnes, tinned to her friend with this question.
“Well,” began Gracie, “I would like to be very rich, and live in a grand house, like that one,” as she pointed to the finest home she could see; “and of course I would like to be very beautiful, and have a nice bicycle of my own, and pretty dresses to wear!”
Agnes laughed very much at this vain, fanciful wish, hut she didn’t tell Gracie what her own wish was, though she afterward wished she had done so, for she had learned that nothing in this world can make us really happy. She had found the Lord Jesus as her Saviour, and this had made her happy.
Soon after, Agnes moved away, and did not see her friend Gracie for two years. Then she came back to the town for a visit and what joy it gave the two friends to meet and chatter together again. They hadn’t been talking long before Gracie told Agnes that she had taken the Lord as her Saviour. This reminded Agnes of the question she had asked two years before, so she asked her again.
“What is your greatest wish, Gracie?”
“To live in heaven, because I shall be with Jesus there,” answered Grade.
“And mine is for the Lord’s coming!” said Agnes.
Now, I wonder if I were to ask you your greatest wish, what would your answer be? Perhaps you are hoping for all sorts of good things that you think will make you very happy. But you will be very much disappointed, for you will have to leave them. all behind some day. If you come to the Lord Jesus, as both Agnes and Gracie did, you will find that which is far better than all the “wishes” you ever thought of.
“Blessed (happy) are all they that put their trust in Him.” Psalm 2: 12.
ML 04/23/1950