Walter and I went together to visit old Mrs. McFadden. She was almost 90 years of age, and was a bit hard of hearing, but she still had the same bright happy look on her wrinkled face.
Our visit had to be rather short, so Walter immediately took out his Bible and read a verse to her.
A bright smile lit up her face, and she said softly,
“Oh, I heard those words many years ago and they made me very happy.”
Still the bright smile continued, and she kept saying slowly to herself, “Laid on Him. Laid on Him.”
Perhaps her thoughts were wandering back to that far-off time when she first heard those words, and had believed that her sins were “laid on Him” — on the Lord Jesus Christ “who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.” 1 Peter 2:2424Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter 2:24).
She had lived many years since she first trusted the Lord Jesus, but the memory of that wonderful verse, with its three grand words, still kept her so happy.
Every time I went to visit her after that, I always used to repeat that same verse, if only to watch for the bright smile that would always light up her face when I came to the words “laid on Him.”
Dear reader, has the time ever come in your life when you truly believed that your own sins were “laid on Him”? God says it is a fact, I believe it, and I am happy.
Do accept the blessed Saviour as your own right now.
ML 03/18/1956