ARE YOU GIVING YOUR BEST TO GOD?

A missionary in India was hurrying along the street one day near the Ganges River when he saw a woman looking into the water. In her arms was a sickly infant, while at her side stood a beautiful, healthy boy. The missionary, on questioning her, found she was in deep distress and was trying to make up her mind to give an offering to her god. He tried to dissuade her, telling her of the love of Jesus and His sacrifice for her. After a time he had to leave her, and hours later he saw her with the sickly babe in her arms. The beautiful boy was gone. He knew what had happened. She had thrown the boy to the crocodiles in the river. “I made an offering to my god,” the woman said. “But why did you give your boy, why not this sickly little one?” asked the missionary. Rising to her feet the woman replied: “We give our gods our best.” - Knight's Master Book of New Illustrations, Walter B. Knight, WM. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1956.