At last, after years of waiting, he comes home.
Somebody asks the girl: "Will you be shy of your father? Won't he be a stranger to you?"
"Oh, no," she says; "he and I are great chums; we've always written to each other. I love his letters, and I love him."
Now this is how we should feel about the Lord Jesus Christ. When He comes back to this world, He should be no stranger to us. We have had His letters. We can read all His beautiful words to us in the New Testament. We can do more than that little girl, we can talk to Him, instead of writing. For He stands close to us always, and He hears our faintest whisper.
Peter the Great, who ruled over Russia, was very fond of disguising himself and going amongst his peasants, and seeing their poverty, noticing who was most worthy of relief. He always won their confidence, but on one occasion a man who was out of work and wanting employment, was very rude to him.
"Go away," he said. "You are poor like ourselves, your clothes show that; we don't want your pity or your comfort. We want money and nothing else. You're no good to us at all."
WASHING FEET. John 13.3-5.
He little knew who was standing amongst them, but later on he was told.
"Oh," he cried, "had I only known, what a lot I could have asked for!"