One day a smiling young girl greeted me and expressed her happiness.
"Tell me," I said, "what is it that makes you so happy?"
"Yes," she replied, "I am quite happy." I could see that her heart was filled with joy.
"But do you think you could tell me briefly what it is that gives you such joy?"
After a moment's pause the following reply was given. What 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! 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!"
"Isn't that wonderful! And now, tell me how do you feel toward Jesus Himself, after seeing and believing all this?"
Her reply was natural and beautiful. She said: "As I saw how much He loved me, I could not help but give my heart to Him."
These three answers have been engraved on my memory, 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 could not help but 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 one who reads this. This is our deep, earnest, and fervent prayer. "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name." John 1:1212But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: (John 1:12).