A little girl about ten years old, was very unhappy, but she would not own this to any of her friends; indeed they would hardly have believed her if she had done so. She had a kind father and mother, a comfortable home and many nice things to enjoy, which other little girls of her own age had to go without.
“Whatever made her unhappy then?” I hear you saying.
Well, I will let you into the secret. Her dear parents were both believers on the Lord Jesus Christ, and she knew that if the Lord Jesus were to come for them, as He might do now at any moment, they would be quite ready to go with Him to the beautiful home above the sky, and she would be left behind. It was not that she did not believe that the Lord Jesus Christ had come to this sinful world to die on the cruel cross for sinners, but she did not feel quite sure that He had died for her.
One evening she went as usual to hear a gospel address, and it seemed to her as if the preacher must have known how miserable she was. Just as he was about to finish speaking he said,
“Are there any here who want to believe, but who for some reason or other are afraid that this good news is not for them? If so, I beg them not to go to bed before they have said these words from their heart,
“Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief.”
That little girl, before she got into bed that same evening, breathed out these words to the One Who was waiting to comfort her, and that very minute she was made perfectly happy. She could now believe that her sins were washed away in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and she also was ready for Him if He should come.
Many years have passed since the time of which I am speaking, and the little girl has grown to be a woman; but she has never doubted for one moment the love of the Lord Jesus Who died on the cross for her.
Dear little ones, He died for you too. Will you not believe on Him now, before it is too late?
If you will accept Him now as your own precious Saviour, He will call you His own redeemed one, and when He comes to call all of His own, He will surely take you, too, to His happy Home.
ML 07/12/1931