TELL me,” I said, “what is it that makes you so happy now? You say you are quite happy, and have been so since last night.”
“Yes,” she replied, “I am, quite happy” —and evidently with much feeling.
“But do you think you could tell me distinctly what it is that gives you so much new joy?”
After a moment’s pause the following reply was given: but such a reply for fulness and simplicity!
“I see the love of Jesus to me a sinner.”
“Bless the Lord,” I said, “that is something to see; may you never lose sight of it! But in what way, my dear child, do you see His love to yourself now?”
“I now see that He died for me on the cross, and put all my sins away there!”
“Amen,” my heart replied; “surely thou art taught of God! And now, once more, tell me, how do you feel towards Jesus Himself, after seeing and believing all this?” Her reply was natural and beautiful; she said,
“I feel it easy now to give my heart to Him.”
I had nothing more to ask of the young believer, and turned away quickly, but with a praising heart, and with these three answers so engraven on my memory, as never to be forgotten.
“I see the love of Jesus to me a sinner; I now see that He died for me on the cross, and put all my sins away there; I feel it easy now to give my heart to Him.”
I have heard many confessions from many lips, but I have never heard one more simple, more concise, more complete, or more satisfactory. May it be a divine help, and a divine test to thousands of the readers of this is the deep, earnest, and fervent prayer of him to whom the answers were given.
ML 11/30/1924