In speaking today to some children, I put some questions and received answers as follows:
“Why did God’s Son come into the world?”
“To redeem and save us.”
“What did He do to redeem and save us?”
“He died for our sins on the cross.” “How do we get the benefit of His death on the cross?”
Here the bright little girl that had given the other answers, rather hung her head, and said under her breath that she didn’t know the answer to that.
Well, my dear young readers, I daresay most of you could give an answer and it would be something like this:
“By believing on Him,” and this would be a fine answer, but I will tell you what I told those children today.
I read to them the fourth verse of the first chapter of Leviticus: “And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.”
Then I told them that in the days of Moses, people, if they sinned, used to bring a bullock, or a lamb, or a kid, and offer it to the Lord. Its blood was shed, and the person who had sinned and brought this offering had just to lay his hand on the animal’s head, and it was accepted for him. But Jesus Christ has already died on the cross to redeem and save us, and God has raised Him up from dead and put Him at His own right hand in heaven. Now, God has accepted the offering, and it only remains for us to lay our hands on the head of the offering, each for himself.
Do you, dear child, feel the burden of your sins? Christ has offered Himself to God; His precious blood has been shed. Come, then, to God with Christ as your offering, saying not only that Christ died for sinners, but that “Christ died for me.” He is my offering. Fear then, no longer.
“He shall lay his hand upon the head of the offering and it shall be accepted for him.” Not for someone else, but for hint. Rest, dear child, in the work of Jesus, and in the word of God, which says,
ML 02/27/1938