Amy had come to visit her Aunt Winnie and her little cousin Sally, but before she had even taken off her hat and coat she had spied a little doll on the dresser. When no one was looking, she picked the doll off the dresser and laid it under her hat on the bed.
A little later she listened to the voices of her aunt and cousin in the next room. They were hunting for the doll, the pretty little doll that Amy had just stolen! If anyone had seen her cheeks then, they would have thought they were very rosy red indeed.
Oh what a guilty conscience the little girl had.
“I just can’t imagine where that doll went to,” she heard Aunt Winnie say. “I saw it here just before Amy came. It must be somewhere!”
Amy squirmed as she sat on the floor, pretending to be interested in some toys. Though she was just five years old, she knew that it was a very wicked thing that she had done. Now it sounded as though they were looking in her coat pockets. Finally she could stand it no longer, so she called, “Aunt Winnie, don’t look under my hat!”
And that’s just where Aunt Winnie did look, of course.
Amy learned that her aunt had planned to give her that little doll, but she could not give it to a little girl who stole things.
By and by Amy’s mother heard all about it, and sitting down on the sofa with her little girl along side of her, she read to her about God being able to see even hidden sins. She also read that all liars would have their part in the lake which burneth with fire.
How terrible that sounded to little Amy! She felt what a dreadful sin it was to steal that little doll, and then to act a lie on top of it. Yes, she knew she was a great sinner indeed.
Some time later, her sister, who was just two years older than she, was saved as she read and believed John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24): “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation [judgment]; but is passed from death unto life.”
She told Amy all about it, told her too that she could be saved, for God loved her in spite of her sins.
When Amy said her prayers that night, she told the Lord Jesus what a sinner she was, and asked Him to wash her sins away too. And the Lord Jesus did that, for He loved His little girl and came to earth to prove that love to her by dying upon the cross for her sins.
The next morning Amy said eagerly to her mother,
“Mother, I’m saved!”
“You are? Well, how do you know you are?”
“Didn’t Jesus die for little children as well as for big folks?”
“Yes, God’s Word says that He died for all, dear.”
“Then,” said Amy happily, “Jesus died for me, and I’m saved.”
ML-07/23/1978