Here is a little girl dropping a letter in the mail box. I wonder whom it is for. I know a little boy who once ran up to a postman saying, “Please give me a letter.”
“I do not know you, little sir,” replied the man smiling. “Do you not know I am the Queen’s servant, and may only give my letters to the people they are meant for?”
So the little boy ran back empty-handed and not very happy, to his mother.
I heard the same request made again one day, and the good-natured postman smiled and handed the little fellow an “ad.” It was for everybody, and therefore for him.
God’s salvation is for “whosoever will.”
A little girl once ran to the postman for a letter, and came back with an envelope. “This,” she said, “is for my very own self.”
That is how you must receive God’s message. It is for your very own self, but it will not be yours until you take it, and then you can say “Jesus is my Saviour.”
ML 03/21/1954