Today was Mommy’s usual grocery shopping day. Four-year-old Chad looked forward to this trip to town every week. The employees at the store where they shopped liked young children and even had little shopping carts for them to push. Chad had only one thing he wanted to buy—a can of pop. Oh, how he loved pop!
Mommy seemed so slow today. He wondered why he couldn’t go by himself and get his pop. He knew right where to find it. So off he went pushing his little shopping cart to the pop section.
My, but there were so many different kinds. Though he couldn’t read, he could tell from the colors of the cans what flavors cart to the pop section. There were cream soda, orange, root beer, cola, and ginger ale. It was a hard choice for a little boy to make. Chad finally decided to take the orange.
He put the can in his cart and started off to find Mommy. Down the aisle he went with a pleased look on his face. Mommy should be in the next aisle, he thought. But when he got there, there was no Mommy. Chad began to get worried. Quickly he ran with his cart to the next aisle, but Mommy wasn’t there either. Now Chad began to cry out in a very loud, frightened voice, “MOMMY, MOMMY, WHERE ARE YOU?” His big blue eyes filled with tears and a few slipped down his freckled cheeks.
Are you lost in your sins? Will you cry out for help just as Chad did? “Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses.” Psalm 107:66Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. (Psalm 107:6). “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” Matthew 7:77Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: (Matthew 7:7). “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:1010For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10).
Mommy heard Chad’s frightened call and quickly followed his cries until she found him.
Suddenly, Chad’s orange pop wasn’t important any more. All that mattered to him was seeing his mommy’s face and being held in her loving arms.
There is a loving Father in heaven whose arms are open wide, just waiting for anyone who realizes he is lost in his sins to run to Him for safety. He longs to forgive you and claim you as one of His children. Once Chad realized he was lost he knew exactly what to do—He called good and loud for his mommy. And his mommy came on the run. Moments later he felt safe and secure in her arms. The Lord Jesus will wrap you in His loving arms the moment you call for Him. “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10:1313For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13). Wouldn’t you like to have that safe and secure feeling of being held in His loving arms with your sins gone forever? You only need to call.
ML 06/17/1990