A little girl was coming down the stairs in her home, one day. She was not quite five years old, and she was singing the chorus of a hymn that perhaps you may know,
“Yes, Jesus loves me,
The Bible tells me so.”
Suddenly she stopped as the thought came into her mind, “Yes, it is ME that Jesus loves. I am the little girl He loves.”
She had never thought it really meant her, and it made her so happy. All the rest of that day her little voice might have been heard singing over and over, the words,
“Jesus loves ME, this I know
For the Bible tells me so;
Little ones to Him belong,
They are weak but He is strong.”
She knew too, that Jesus had died on the cross to wash away her sins, for she sometimes sang these words, “And so He died, and this is why He came to be a Man and die; The Bible says He came from heaven That we might have our sins forgiven.”
Perhaps you have often sung the words of these sweet hymns, but have they really been sung from your heart? Can you say,
“It is ME that Jesus loves”?
ML 06/04/1939