Show Me My Way Home

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 13, 1913

Show Me My Way Home

Lesson for the Children—No. 8

“Show Me My Way Home”

MEMORY TEXT: “Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.” 2 Cor. 5:20.

That word am-bas-sa-dor is a hard one for little folks; it means one who talks or acts for another. (Tell how our country sends ambassadors to other nations, and that it is a high and honorable position.)

But instead of making only one his ambassador, God sends all his people to others to help them to love him. It is a great privilege to be chosen for this service, and he wants us to live so others will serve him.

I have in my hand a little salt. What is it good for? “To keep things from spoiling,” you say. Yes, and we should not care to live in a family where they did not put salt in the food. It would not taste good.

Jesus said, “Ye are the salt of the earth.” Matt. 5:13. As salt flavors and preserves our food, so we are to be in the world “a savor of life unto life,” to draw others to Jesus, who has done so much for us all. We must not only get ready ourselves, but help others.

A boat was seen drifting on the ocean, and a ship that was passing went to rescue any who might be in it. A man was there, and they lifted him out, for he was nearly dead. As soon as he was safe, his first words were, “There’s another man in the boat.” He did not think of himself, but of the “other man” who might be lost.

It was so with Andrew when he found Jesus. “He first findeth his own brother Simon, and . . . brought him to Jesus.” This is our work now: to find our brothers and sisters, our fathers and mothers, if they are not saved, tell them how Jesus forgives and loves us, and ask them to love him, too. James 5:20.

(Produce a magnet, and a needle or some object of steel that it will lift.) If I lift this needle with my fingers and then let go, it drops to the floor. But if I touch the needle with the magnet, the magnet draws and holds the needle so it does not fall. There is a power that keeps it from falling.

Perhaps you have sometimes felt afraid to start to be a Christian because you thought it so easy to do wrong and sometimes hard to do right. Now the Lord says he is “able to keep you from falling” into sin (Jude 24), and he will if you ask and trust him. More than that, he will “present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.” Think of it! Not even one fault or stain of sin! What joy to meet Jesus that way! But we must come close to him, as the needle does to the magnet, and ask him to do this.

Many others would be glad to know such a Saviour. (Tell of the ways some try to make themselves righteous, and why they fail.) We may win their love by our lives, and tell them Jesus loves them.

A little child was lost in a great city. A crowd gathered round, and it was frightened by seeing only strangers instead of friends. But one man looked so tenderly into the little face that when the child saw him, he reached up his arms, and said, “Please show me my way home.”

There are so many who long for home and heaven, but they don’t know the way. They are lost. They reach out their hands to us from near and far, asking us to show them how to find Jesus and their heavenly home. Shall we not try to help them?

(Tell of different ways children can do good. Even at home they may be helpers, and by their prayers and gifts they can also assist others who go as missionaries.)