When Ada was a little girl, she loved to go to the gospel meeting with her father. She, used to march so proudly bind him as he walked right up to the front of the Hall, next to the preacher. She would sing all the hymns, and listen very attentively to the speaker.
But one evening, after the meeting, the preacher asked Ada a question, “You sang the last hymn so sweetly, but did you really mean it?”
Ada hung her head very low, and did not answer, but her conscience was awakened.
Would you like to know what hymn it was? I expect you know it,
“I came to Jesus as I was,
Weary and worn and sad,
I found in Him a resting place,
And He has made ME glad.”
The next Sunday, little Ada was in her place beside her father, but she did not sing. The preacher missed her little voice, and he knew God was speaking to her little soul. She knew the Lord Jesus had died on the cross, and that she might have Him for her very own Saviour, if she would only accept God’s way of salvation. But she did so want to put it off until she was older. She became so miserable at the thought of not being able to sing truly so many precious little hymns, that she could not bear it any longer, but whispered, “Jesus, I will trust Thee.”
The next Lord’s day, such a happy little face shone beside her father, that the preacher knew something had happened, and Ada sang the hymns so very heartily.
After the meeting, he spoke to the little girl, and was rejoiced to know that she had now accepted the Lord Jesus as her Saviour.
When you sing one of your sweet little hymns, at home or at school, or anywhere else, will you think of this true little story, and say to yourself, . “Do you really mean it?”
If you will just trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for your soul’s salvation, the hymns you sing will have a true, precious meaning for you.
ML 06/21/1931