Down the steep slope of a massive mountainside the guide led his little party of climbers. It had been a wonderful day: first the toil up the mountain and then the glorious air and far-reaching view from the summit. Now the dangerous places had been passed, the climbers were unroped and they were almost in sight of their hotel.
Suddenly, unexpectedly, they came to a standstill before a yawning, deep crevice. It must be crossed. Leaping across to the other side, the guide cried: “Follow me!”
One of the party obeyed, and in a moment he stood beside the guide. Another followed, and another, until all but one man were safely over. But the last man stood with white, set face and horror-stricken eyes staring into the dreadful depth. Tired with the day’s climbing, utterly unstrung, all his nerve failed him as he hesitated there.
“I can’t,” he cried desperately.
The guide stepped forward. Holding out his strong right hand, he said: “That hand has never failed the hand that grasped it.”
In a moment the climber laid his hand in the one stretched out to him, jumped and was safe on the other side.
There is One who stands before us on life’s pathway. He stretches out the hand that was once wounded to weary, sin-stricken, lost and guilty souls. He can truly say, “That hand has never failed the one who has grasped it.”
How is it with you? Do you know this Jesus as your Saviour? Have you trusted all to that nail-pierced hand—to the mighty power of the Saviour of sinners? He is willing and able to “save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him” (Hebrews 7:2525Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. (Hebrews 7:25)).
“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” 1 Timothy 1:15