A smiling young face beamed with joy as she greeted me and expressed her happiness.
"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." Evidently her heart was filled with joy.
"But do you think you could tell me briefly what it is that gives you such new joy?”
After a moment's pause the following reply was given: but such a reply for fullness 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 do you see His love to you, personally, now?”
"I now see that He died for me on the cross, and put all my sins away there!”
"Amen," my heart replied. "Surely you are taught of God! And now, once more, tell me how do you feel toward Jesus Himself, after seeing and believing all this?”
Her reply was natural and beautiful. She said: "I feel it is so easy now to give my heart to Him.”
There was nothing more to ask of the young believer, and I turned away quickly, but with a praising heart. These three answers were engraved on my memory so 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 is so 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 the readers of "Echoes of Grace." This is our deep, earnest, and fervent prayer.