BEN WAS just seven years old, the youngest of a poor family of fourteen children. Money was hard to come by, but somehow Ben had managed to get a few pennies.
“I was directed to a shop where they sold children’s toys,” he wrote later, “and seeing a boy there blowing a whistle, I wanted one too. I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for the whistle. Then I came home and was whistling all over the house, much pleased with my while, but disturbing the family. My brothers and sisters, hearing how I bought the whistle, told me I had paid four times as much as it was worth, and laughed at me so much that I started to cry. Thinking about how foolish I had been made me feel more miserable than ever.
“As I grew up, and watched the actions of men, I thought I met many who gave ‘too much for the whistle.’" By this he meant that as he went through life he found that often people will seek after and pay so much for things that in the end mean so little in this life.
How many today are seeking to find happiness in this world’s pleasures which will never satisfy. Like paying so much extra for the while, so many today expend their time, their efforts, their money, on the world and its toys, which never can satisfy the cravings of their hearts. God made your heart too big for this world to fill; but the Lord Jesus can fill and satisfy your heart, for His Word says, “He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.” Psa. 107:99For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. (Psalm 107:9).
If you have not met this most wonderful Saviour, dear reader, let Him now draw you with cords of love to Himself, and put your soul’s trust in Him. Then you will be able to sing:
“Now none but Christ can satisfy,
None other Name for me;
There’s love, and life, and lasting joy,
Lord Jesus, found in Thee.”
ML-08/02/1970