A LITTLE girl in my class was asked one day to write down what she knew about Jesus, and, although very busy during the week, she wrote down a long list of those things which she could remember, and about the middle of her list she put the following sentence, which pleased me very much;
“Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost, and I was one of them,"
Can you say this, my dear young reader? Although young, she knew that Jesus had come to save her Do you know it? And why did she know it? Simply because she believed what God had said about her, that she was lost, for God says,
All have sinned;" Rom. 3:2 3,
She not only classed herself among the lost, and believed that Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost, but she believed that He had found her, and saved her. Can you say with her,
"Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost, and I was one of them"?
The little girl took her place as a lost sinner. If you do not, salvation is not for you
The jailor at Philippi cried out from the bottom of his heart,
"What must I do to be saved?" Acts 16:3030And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? (Acts 16:30). Now the Lord will save you in the same way as He saved the jailor and the little girl, that is, without money and without price, for we read,
O! if you have not yet, dear young friend, come to God as a lost sinner, come now, this very moment—come to Jesus now, just as you are, and be sure He will save you, for He has said Himself,
But take with rejoicing, from Jesus at once
The life everlasting He gives,
And know with assurance, you never can die,
Since Jesus, your Substitute, lives."
Messages of God’s Love 7/8/1934