There is a special blessedness in being saved in early days—a place of peculiar nearness to Jesus, that only those who become His in youthful years, have the promise of receiving. Concerning those who are in early days converted, and brought into His flock, it is said,
“He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom” Isa, 40:11.
Those “little ones who believe in Him” He takes into this place of spial affection, near to His heart, and carries them safely along the way to the home of His love in heaven.
What a mistake for little boys and girls to refuse such a place, and to say they will come to Jesus when they are older. Even were this possible—and it is not always so, for they sometimes die—they lose the special place that the Shepherd would have given them, had they but come to Him when they were “little children.”
To those who are His own, He says, “I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you, for His name’s sake,” 1 John 2:12.
ML 07/28/1946