"Jesus Loves Me, He Died for Me"

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Duration: 2min
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A little girl was sitting one Lord’s day evening on her father’s knee talking about Jesus. Somow they began at last to speak of death. To die and go to heaven is not the proper hope of the believer, but rather the coming of the Lord. It is the coming of the Lord that the believer in Christ is to look for, and it is that which is called “the blessed hope.” Although death is not what the Christian is to expect, it so happened that this little child and her father got to talking about it, and at last the father asked, “Would you like to die, and go to be where Jesus is?”
“Yes, I should,” replied the child. “What! and leave your father and mother here?”
“I should like you all to go with me.” “But suppose you had to go first and leave us behind?”
“I should like to be with Jesus, bause Jesus loves me.”
“But don’t we love you?”
“Yes, I know you love me,” replied the little girl.
“Well, then, why would you not rather stay with us?”
“Jesus loves me too,” said the child, hardly able yet to express her thought, but it came out presently.
“Don’t we do all we can to show that we love you?” asked her father.
“Yes,” replied the little girl looking very thoughtful. “You love me, but Jesus DIED for me.”
This settled the question to her mind and her father’s too, you may be sure.
Much as the little one loved her parents, and much as they loved her, they both felt that there is One whose claims are far beyond all others; One who has proved His love in a way no other could.
Think, dear young reader, what it must have been for that holy One to be “made sin for us... that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:2121For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21).
What must it have been for Jesus to bear the wrath of God? He loved God His Father as none on earth ever loved Him, yet He bore God’s wrath against sin because in His love for us poor lost sinners He took our place and “bare our sins 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). He took all the punisent, all the sorrow, that we who believe in Him, as this little girl did, might never have to bear it.
ML 08/08/1954