Snowy was a pet lamb. Carol and Helen had taken care of Snowy since he was very small, and he ran after them and ate from their hands. But one morning when they went outside after breakfast to play with Snowy, they saw a strange sight. Poor Snowy was being taken away by the butcher’s big boy. Yes, it was Snowy all right, with a big rope around his neck. With a cry and a rush they had their arms around that woolly neck. and they held on tight, calling out for the big boy to let their Snowy go free.
“That’s our Snowy, you must let him go.”
“Master bought this lamb this morning, and I am going to take him to the slaughterhouse.”
“Kill our Snowy! No, you won’t, we won’t let go.”
By this time some of the neighbor children had come along and were looking on rather fearfully as Carol held onto Snowy’s neck, and Helen tried hard to pull the rope from the butcher boy’s hand.
Just at this moment, a stranger came along and stopped to watch.
“What’s all this noise about?” asked the stranger.
“It’s our lamb, sir, and he wants to kill it.”
Quickly the kind man took out his purse and asked the boy how much he had paid for the lamb. Then he counted out the amount and a little more. This he gave to the boy, took the rope from his hand and gave the lamb back to Carol and Helen.
It all happened so quickly they could hardly believe it. They jumped up and down for joy and thanked the kind stranger again and again. Snowy was redeemed!
Yes, Snowy could not save himself, and the children, dearly as they loved him; couldn’t redeem him either. But someone else paid the price and redeemed the lamb from death.
I have been redeemed too. Someone paid the price to redeem me. Shall I tell you who paid for me, and how much He paid? The Lord Jesus paid the price that I might be redeemed, and this is what He paid: He bore all the punishment for my sins on the cross. His precious blood has removed them all, and now I have been redeemed to God at this great cost.
ML 11/21/1954