HOW wonderful are God’s ways; they are indeed “past finding out.” Often the simplest circumstances bring about eternal results.
A gentleman was visiting a professional diver at his home one day, and noticed on the mantelpiece the shell of an oyster with a bit of paper held fast.
The diver noticed his attention riveted, and hastened to explain why such a curious ornament adorned his room.
He was once diving near the coast, and observed at the bottom of the sea an oyster on a rock with a piece of paper in the shell. His curiosity was aroused, and detaching the fragment he put it up to the goggles of his headdress and found it to be a piece of a Gospel tract.
Who can tell? —perhaps some careless receiver disdainfully had torn it up and flung it away; but God had His own purposes even in this, and the message, refused by one, became the means of salvation to another. “How can I refuse the mercy of God that follows me to the depth of the sea,” was what filled the mind of the diver, and there in that strange sanctuary that event took place which causes all heaven to ring with joy: the lost one was found.
There may be no possibility of your conversion being as romantic, but it may be just us, as real, and cause just as much joy in heaven. Why not trust Jesus Now?
ML 12/08/1918