A CLASS of little girls was asked by their Sunday school teacher, to tell the various things that Jesus came to do. One girl said, “He came to tell us of God’s love.” Another said, “He came to be a light in the world” and still another replied, “He came to die.”
One little girl said quietly, “He came to seek and to save that which was lost; and I was one of them.”
Everyone looked at her, surprised at her strange answer. Afterward, when the rest had gone home, the teacher drew little Mina to her side, and asked, “What did you mean by saying, I was one of them, Mina?”
“Because you told us a long time ago that all of us were lost sinners, and that we could not go to heaven unless we are saved,” was her answer. “I knew that I was one of them. Then you told us that Jesus came to seek and to save the lost, and that He loved lost sinners. I knew that if He loved the lost, then He loved me, for I was one of them, and I believed it, and have been happy ever since.”
ML-03/24/1974