“Happy day! Happy day!
When Jesus washed my sins away;
He taught me how to watch and pray,
And live rejoicing every day;
Happy day! Happy day!
When Jesus washed my sins away.”
Claire is a little girl, only three years old, and this song is one of her favorites. One morning she lay in her crib happily singing the songs that she knows. Her mother listened carefully and this is what she heard,
“Happy day! Happy day!
When Jesus taught me how
To wash my sins away.
Happy day! Happy day!”
Claire changed the words of the old song, but they remind us of the wonderful news that the Lord Jesus brought from heaven. He came down to earth to tell lost sinners that they need not go to hell. By simply believing on Him as their Saviour, boys and girls, men and women, are saved forever.
The book of Jeremiah, in the Old Testament, was written many years before the Lord Jesus came. There it says (chapter 2:22), “Though thou wash... with... much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.” Job was a man who lived long before Jeremiah, and although he knew God and was a wonderful man, yet he said (Job 9:30), “If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; yet shalt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.”
Jeremiah and Job did not know about salvation through the Lord Jesus for He had not yet come to earth. But you know about Him if you just read the stories in this little paper. And the Bible tells all about Him and how He died for sinners. If your sins have not been washed away, just quietly tell the Lord Jesus that you want to be saved. Then you can put your name in a verse that is in the last book of the Bible, “Jesus Christ... loves me and washed me from my sins in His own blood.” Rev. 1:5. It will be the most wonderful day of your life, when Jesus washes your sins away.
ML-06/23/1963