Percy wasn’t very old, but he knew that Jesus was his Saviour, and that his sins were forgiven.
There are a lot of people who pretend they know a great deal about the Bible, but they don’t think it is possible to know that our sins are gone. One day Percy was visiting with his father where there were quite a few men who had Bibles, and believed in God, but they didn’t know their sins were forgiven. Percy was singing quietly to himself a hymn which he had learned in Sunday school.
“What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”
All at once, one of these men called Percy to him arid began to ask him a lot of questions. Soon he asked, “And what did you do when you felt yourself to be so great a sinner?”
By this time everybody in the room was quietly listening to all the questions and answers.
“I just went to Jesus and told Him how sinful I was, and asked Him to wash away my sins in His blood.”
“And do you hope that at that time Jesus heard and forgave your sins?”
“I don’t only hope so, sir. I know He did.”
This was too much for the listeners. One of the older ones came right over and said, “You say you KNOW that Jesus forgave your sins?”
“Yes, sir, I did.”
“How do you know it, my boy?”
“He said He would,” said Percy, looking greatly surprised that anyone would doubt God’s promise.
“He said He would do what?”
“He said that if I would confess my sins, He was faithful and just, and would forgive them. I did confess them to Him, and I know He forgave them because HE SAID HE WOULD.”
ML 05/07/1950