A LITTLE girl named Sally, who loved the Lord Jesus, was one day sent out to pay a bill for her grandmother. The distance from home was quite far, and the way somewhat lonely. After she had paid the money, she turned to go home, but it became dark before she reached there.
As she passed along, a man met her in the dark, and surprised at finding a little girl like her alone, he asked, “Little girl! aren’t you afraid to go in this lonely place in the dark?”
“Oh, no!” she answered, “for God is with me.”
They parted, and Sally soon foot the incident. But God made use of it, for her words were to be used in blessing to the man she had met. Soon after Sally was sent to Sunday school. She became very fond of her teacher, and her teacher became very fond of her. One day her teacher told her that her husband wished to see her, so she went with the lady to her home, and after eating dinner there, the teacher’s husband said to Sally. “Do you remember meeting a man many months ago on the road in the evening, who asked you if you were not afraid?”
“Yes, sir,” she answered, “I do.”
“Well,” he said, “I was that man. I was drunk at the time; but your answer, that God was with you, clung to me, and I thought it over when I became sober, and the Lord used it to lead me to Himself. I became one of His children by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. I want to thank you, and let you know that the Lord used you in my salvation, not only from drunkenness, but from hell.” How happy it made Sally to hear this.
Sally is grown up now and suffers greatly from a bodily affliction, but she is still able to say, “I am not afraid, for God is with me.”
It is a very precious thing to be able to say that, and the reader may be able to say it too, through simply believing what God tells us of His Son and of His love for us, and resting on His work on the cross for salvation. We can have peace with God not only about our sins, but about everything else that happens to us in our lives, by casting all our care upon Him, knowing that in everything He cares for us.
He’s your best and truest Friend,
One who always will defend.
Do not let Him knock in vain,
He may never come again.
Hear His gentle, loving voice.
Bid Him welcome, and rejoice.
ML-05/18/1969