Margaret was eleven years old when she attended a New Year’s treat for children. Several speakers sought to make plain the way of salvation through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord opened young Margaret’s heart and she heard and believed the Word. It entered her heart as incorruptible seed, “which liveth and abideth Forever.” (1 Peter 1:2323Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. (1 Peter 1:23).)
When Margaret got home that night, tears flowed freely from her eyes, yet they were not tears of distress but of joy. Taking her grandmother by the hand she said quietly, “Grandma, I’m saved!” This confidence in the Lord rained with her to the last, and she showed by her life what her lips confessed.
Some years earlier, when just a little thing, rheumatic fever had weakened her heart and she was frequently ill. But there in her home she let her light shine by her kind and thoughtful helpfulness in caring in every way she could for the comfort of others in that large family.
Three years after she confessed Him as her Saviour the Lord took dear Margaret home to be with Himself in heaven. She had long been ready to go. Her sins had all been put away from God’s sight by the Lord Jesus who had borne them in His own body on the tree (1 Peter 2:2424Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter 2:24)). Cleansed from her sins she was fit for that bright Home above where sin and death can never come.
ML-05/20/1979