Last summer, Dad and I went out to the barn in the morning to do chores as usual. Dad needed to feed the cattle and milk Pauline, our cow, and I needed to feed my goats. I walked past the goat pen to Pauline’s pen and discovered our big gray cow was stuck! Really stuck! There she was in the doorway, and she couldn’t move very far. There was a hook on the wall in the doorway that curves upwards and is open at the top. It’s been there for a long time. She must have been scratching her eye or face on the hook or the doorpost, and the open end of the hook went through her right upper eyelid, and there she was stuck. That poor cow couldn’t go anywhere!
Dad and I tried to get it out of her eyelid by pushing her forward to unhook it, but that didn’t work. So Dad got a saw and sawed through the bolt and then pulled it out of her eyelid. She was glad to be free, and we were relieved that she was free too.
For the next several days we put medicine in her eye. Her eyelid was very swollen, but gradually the swelling went down, and the wound in the eyelid healed. But we were concerned about her eye, wondering if she would be blind in that eye. We kept checking, but soon we could tell that she could see out of it. We were so happy that her eye wasn’t damaged, and today she is fine.
The sad part is that Pauline stood there most of the night, stuck in the doorway. It happened after we had left the barn for the night. She could have called for help, if she had only mooed and mooed and made a fuss. We would have heard her and come out to see what was wrong. But she didn’t, and so she stood there for hours as she waited for us.
The Lord Jesus is ready and wants to save you and me from our sins, if we haven’t already come to Him to have our sins forgiven. If we have accepted Him as our Saviour, our sins are gone, and He is ready to help us with whatever we need. We just need to ask Him! We are told in Matthew 7:77Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: (Matthew 7:7), “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” We only need to come to Him in prayer, telling Him our trouble, and then He will give us wisdom to know what to do. He says, “If any of you [need] wisdom, let him ask of God ... and it shall be given him” (James 1:55If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. (James 1:5)).
Have you let the Lord Jesus save you from your sins? Have you come to Him with your problems, asking Him for help?
ML-06/16/2013