MRS. BAKER had a little sick daughter, Diane, whom she had left at home with Shirley, her sister, and a neighbor lady, while she went to get some milk from a nearby farm. On her way home she met Joe, the hired man. “How is your little girl today?” asked Joe. “The doctor says nothing but a miracle can save her, Joe,” replied the mother sadly.
“Never mind, Mrs. Baker,” said Joe. “The Lord can do it if it is His will.”
“Thank you, Joe!” was all Mrs. Baker could say as she hurried home. “Where’s Shirley,” asked Mrs., Baker.
“Oh, she went down the street a few minutes ago,” replied her neighbor. “Never mind, she’ll be all right.”
Shirley had indeed gone down the street, on an errand of love and mercy. She had overheard the door’s words, and taking a few coins from her money box, she went from one shop to another in the village, saying, “Please, I want to buy a miracle.”
The shop keepers could hardly suppress a smile as they assured her they did not sell miracles. With tears in her eyes, Shirley finally came to the drug store. She thought, Didn’t mother go there sometimes and buy medicine when they were sick?
“Please, Sir, I want to buy a miracle,” she told the druggist.
“My dear,” answered the druggist kindly, “we don’t sell miracles here.”
Sad at heart, the child was about to leave, but two men happened to be at the drug store talking, and heard her request. One of them was a doctor, and he asked Shirley what she meant. She told him how her little sister was so ill, whereupon the doctor said, “Take me to where you live, Shirley, and we’ll see what can be done.”
They soon reached the cottage, and in a few minutes the doctor was examining the little patient.
“It is quite true,” he said; “your little girl is very sick, and only a miracle can save her; something must be done at once.” He had her taken at once to the hospital, where he operated on little Diane. To the joy and thanksgiving of all, God spared her little life. She was saved by a “miracle.”
The greatest of all miracles is this: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16).
Will you, dear reader, allow Jesus, the great Physician, to perform that miracle in your life? He is your only hope — the only way that you can or ever will be saved.
ML-08/21/1966