I really think there never was a more timid and frightened girl than Shirley. She could not bear the dark, nor would she ever go anywhere alone, not even in the daytime. Her two sisters were never afraid; and, I am sorry to say, poor Shirley had to stand a lot of thoughtless teasing from them.
But at last there came a change in Shirley. She was no longer the nervous girl she had been, and she could sing and smile all day and never feared the dark at all. What made the difference? Perhaps you think she took some wonderful medicine, or that she just grew a little older and left childish fears behind.
We will find out the secret. In a certain box, where Shirley keeps her greatest treasures, there is a leaf torn out of a little diary, and on it you would find these words—
March 10th. Jesus saved me today.
Now we know the reason. And I am sure this is the reason, for she told me one day about all her former fears. She said, “I was in constant terror lest the Lord should come and leave me behind, and whenever the rest of the family were out of my sight I thought surely the Lord had come. I used to lie awake at night and fearfully listen for some sound that would give me to know that my mother and my sisters were still here. But on the day that Jesus saved me, I knew that when He came He would take me up to heaven too.”
Are you saved? If the Lord Jesus came right now while you are reading this paper, would you go up to be with Him? He is waiting right now to save you if you will but bow and trust and accept Him as your own.
ML 02/18/1951