“AND TO think that at first I didn’t want him!” sighed Mrs. Mascarella, with tears in her eyes, as she looked at the lifeless form of Jiggs — a little mongrel dog she had made a friend of a few weeks before.
Jiggs was found dead beside Lucy’s bed. Lucy was the youngest of seven children who were aroused by Jiggs when the house caught fire. Jiggs first aroused Mrs. Mascarella, and then each of the seven children. They all escaped but poor Jiggs.
Yet the honest confession about the dog who saved them was one of dislike, for Jiggs was only a poor, stray, mongrel dog.
How many today dislike the lowly name of Jesus and speak of Him with scorn! Yet He is the One who died upon the Cross to save sinners from the judgment of God against their sins. Jesus is the only Saviour — the only Refuge from the coming storm — our Deliverer from the wrath to come. (1 Thess. 1: 10.)
How are you treating this blessed Saviour, dear boy or girl? “What think ye of Christ?” Is He your Saviour, or do you despise and reject Him? Like the mother in our story, who disliked Jiggs at first, how many there are who have had a change of heart, having found that Jesus died to save them from their sins long, long ago. Now they love and worship Him who died but who lives again for them in heaven.
Don’t you want to be among that number who are going to sing His praise in that bright Home above, instead of being among those who will weep and wail amid the fires of God’s eternal judgment?
ML-01/05/1964