I once had a very little friend. She was so very little that she must have thought me much bigger and more important than I really am.
One day she said to me, “I’m saving up a thousand pounds to give to you.”
“And how much have you got already?” I asked.
“I have a halfpenny,” she answered. I smiled, but I could not help thinking how many people plan just as foolishly to pay God the debt that we owe Him. In all our lives we could not pay anything, toward that great debt of sin, for it cannot be paid with silver and gold. A million dollars is no better than a halfpenny to settle that debt.
The debt of our sins is so great that no works or merits of our own could ever settle it either. The precious blood of Jesus alone can blot out all that is against us. God is satisfied with the payment His beloved Son made when He suffered for sins at Calvary, and He offers His pardon freely to all who will come, without money and without price, and receive it.
ML 09/13/1953