“I SHOULD like to give myself to Jesus; but—” So said a young girl to me once, as with tears in her eyes, she told me the sad tale of her short life.
“Would you really like to give up all and come to the Saviour, Emma,” I repeated.
“Oh, yes,” she said, “I should like to do so, but I am too bad to come, sir.”
“Nay, nay,” I replied, “not too bad for Jesus to receive you, for though it may be hard for some, who know how wicked you have been, to love you, Jesus died to save sinners.”
It was a short conversation, but the Spirit of God was at work with my young friend, and soon she exclaimed, “I can give myself right up now, sir.”
Yet how often it is that boys and girls are found shrinking from the loving, outstretched arms of the Saviour, and whilst they watch the happy faces of their Christian friends, they say to themselves, “I, too, should like to give myself to Jesus—but”—and here they stop. But why? Surely not because they think the Lord Jesus does not mean what He says when He bids them come to Him; but because they feel as Emma felt, when she said, “I’m too bad.”
I do lovingly ask any young seeker after Christ, the sense of whose sins hinder him from at once coming to the Saviour, to remember that Jesus has said, “Him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out.”
J. A. S.