IT is very kind of the blessed Lord to lead little children to Himself, and to teach them to trust in the word of God. He is teaching many, as well as leading them to Himself, in our days. But children have their difficulties, as well as grown-up people, as this simple story which shows you how to find help from the word of God witnesses.
There was a little girl who really loved the Lord Jesus, but who, at times, doubted whether she was truly His; and more especially would this be the case when she had been disobedient or naughty. She then would feel that she was not what God would have her be, and, instead of thinking how He loved her, she, for the moment, forgot that no one becomes a child of God by being obedient. The truth is that because a child of God belongs to his Father in heaven he ought to be obedient.
On one occasion, when this little girl was very much troubled lest, after all, she was not a real Christian, her mother reminded her of the way the blessed Lord Jesus silenced Satan, by quoting to him from the Word of God.
A long time after this conversation the little girl said to her mother, "Mamma, I never now have those doubts which I used to have. When they came into my mind I said to Satan, 'The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin'; and after two or three times of being thus spoken to he left tempting me to doubt.”
Now was not this little girl wise? She had simple faith in the word of God, and, young as she was, through grace she gained the victory by it.