AS a gentleman was walking along the street, he noticed a small, ragged boy looking with hungry eyes at the good things in the window of a bakery. Touching the boy on the shoulder, he asked him if he was hungry, and would like something to eat? If so, he was to follow him. The boy looked at him, believed his word, and quickly followed his guide who entered the store, and, putting some money on the counter, told the woman to get a cup of coffee, and to supply plenty of food to the starving boy. When he had had enough to eat, the gentleman began to tell him that God offered to all, without payment, the gift of salvation, by accepting which, the hungry and miserable one is fed and made happy Forever.
Now, dear little friend, won’t you be like this boy, and accept at once God’s invitation, and come to the Lord Jesus who will save you, and lead you in the narrow path that ends in glory?
God has told us that all have sinned, so that we know that we are lost, and unless we come to the Lord Jesus for salvation we shall be Forever miserable.
Don’t think that God does not mean what He says. The boy did not stop to talk about his unfitness to enter the store, nor did his friend say to him, “You must make yourself better before I take you in.” So we must not think that we can do anything for our salvation, but, as God says, “To him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” Rom. 4:55But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. (Romans 4:5).
ML-09/12/1920