A lady was walking in her garden one day, and she was startled by seeing a neighbor’s boy among the apple trees, —looking, as she thought, for some fruit; for she knew he was not a very good boy. However, before she could speak, the boy lifted up his head, and with a beaming face said,
“I am only looking for a ball, ma’am. I love the Lord Jesus now, and I could not take anything that is not my own; so do not be afraid of me.”
The lady was only too glad to learn that the boy had just been brought to know Jesus.
May you, dear children, know, as the little boy did, the love of Jesus in your hearts, and may the power of it show itself in your consciences as it did in his, teaching him that what he could do before (such as taking what did not belong to him), he could not do now, for his Saviour’s sake.
“Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children.” Eph. 1.
ML 05/24/1936