Be ye one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” Eph. 4:32.
Have my little readers ever thought of the wonderful love of God in forgiving us all our sins for Jesus’ sake, and have you ever thought of how unlike our Lord it is to go on day after day in an unforgiving spirit towards any one who may have clone us an injury, or has been unkind to us?
Think of what He has forgiven us!
Our little friend Kathleen loved the Lord Jesus and wished to please Him, and to show the loving, forgiving spirit that He would like to see in a little Christian.
She came home, one day, to her mother with a beautiful bunch of grapes, and holding them up, said,
“Look, mamma, see what a lady gave me!”
“What lovely grapes, and such a lot of them,” her mother replied.
“O,” exclaimed little Kathleen, “she gave me more than this. I gave a lot away!”
Her mamma asked who she gave them to, and she said,
“To a little girl who always pushes me off the pavement, and makes ugly faces at me.”
“Why did you give them to her?” asked her mamma.
“Beause, I thought,” she said, ‘‘it would let her know I wished to be kind to her, then, perhaps, she will not be naughty and rude to me any more.”
Wasn’t this a nice spirit to show, my dear children? She wanted the little girl to know that she would not “pay her back,” and whether the other girl stopped her unkindness or not, she knew the Lord Jesus would be pleased, for she was a little Christian.
Now, my dear reader, if you are washed from your sins in Jesus’ blood, you are a Christian, Christ’s little one.
He says, “Walk as children of light,” and let us ask Him for grace and strength to walk pleasing to Him.
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heavens.” Matthew 5:16.
ML 08/16/1942