How many little ones, yes, and bigger ones, too, can enter into the feelings of a little girl I want to speak of?
She had been sent, at her own request, to a boarding school, and having a willful and naughty temper, was soon in disgrace with all there.
One day, having been unusually rebellions, she was banished from her schoolfellows for the rest of the day. The following morning she was utterly ashamed to meet anyone, and remained in her room as long as she dared. Reaching the dining-room, however, she was greatly surprised to be greeted with a kind “Good morning” from some one seated there.
“Ah,” she thought, “he does not know about me, how naughty I have been, or he would not speak to me.”
She afterward found he did know, and he held a warm place in her heart after that.
Children, are you afraid to meet God because He knows all about you? Do you wish He did not know? Listen, then: He knows and loves you still! No sinful thought or deed is unknown to God, but He sent His own dear Son for the naughty ones, like you and me, and Jesus bore the punishment for us.
“O, ‘twas love, ‘twas wondrous love!
The love of God to me;
It brought my Saviour from above,
To die on Calvary.”
If we can sing these lines with our hearts, then we can thank Him that He knows all about us, and loves us still.
ML 04/04/1943