"Because I Love Jesus!"

From: Messages of God's Love: 1959

I asked a little girl why it was she I wanted to do what is right.

“Because I love Jesus,” she replied. That was a good answer. How many people are trying to do right because they think that is the way to get to heaven. But they are making a great mistake, for doing good deeds has never earned salvation for any one yet. The Lord Jesus finished the work of redemption when He died upon the cross; now there is nothing left for the sinner to do but to come confessing his sins, and believe that Jesus has accounted for them all at Calvary, washing them all away in His own precious blood.

When we know Him as our Saviour, it will be our delight to please and serve Him by seeking to do what is right and good. Like the little girl we will wanted to do good because we love Him.

“We love Him, because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19¹⁹We love him, because he first loved us. (1 John 4:19).

“How much more shall the blood of Christ,... purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.” Heb. 9:14¹⁴How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:14).

ML 01/25/1959

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