ONE evening a little party of us began making a chain, not a daisy chain, nor a gold chain, for we had neither daisies nor gold. It was a text chain, and this is how we made it. One quoted a verse, or a part of a verse and the next person had to quote a verse beginning with the word the former verse ended with, or with some other leading word contained in the verse. Thus: The first verse quoted was, “God is love.” What a grand verse! a good beginning, for it began with Him who was from all eternity, and it ended with what His character is—“love.”
Repeating this last word, the second person gave as a text, “Love one another.”
A word in the last text, and commencing the next text, was “one.”
“One is your Master.” What a good Master is Jesus! He works, is wise, is love, and if all His workers love one another, what happy service it will be!
“Master,” being the last word here, the next link in the chain was, “Master, carest Thou not that we perish?” A storm had come on, and the disciples thus called upon Jesus. “And He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, ‘Peace, be still.’ And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.”
Taking the word “Thou” as the link, another “Thou” was used, “Thou art my God,” followed by “God, be merciful to me a sinner.” “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,” so none need be lost, if they will take their place as sinners, and accept Him as the sinner’s Savior.
This was such a lovely link in our chain that we stopped here, for it brought us to Jesus Himself, who is God’s dear Son come down from heaven to work out salvation for us.
ML-11/21/1920