WE had been speaking to a little company of people one Sunday afternoon. After the meeting, as was usual, we exchanged a few words with some of them. I remarked,
“I am glad the Lord Jesus loves me. It is not so much that I love Him, but what makes me happy is that I know He loves me.”
Then a voice sweetly chimed out, “Me too.”
I wonder how many of my young friends can say, “Me too”! How blessed it is when you meet a little boy or girl who can truly say, “I love Jesus.” The thought at once passes through the mind, “Then Jesus loves him or her, for we love Him because He first loved us.” And as the little hymn, we sometimes sing, says:
“Jesus was the first to love us,
Earth’s foundations long before.”
Yes, dear children, as we read in Proverbs 8, before the mountains were settled, before the hills were, before God made the earth, or the fields, or the highest Part of the dust of the earth, there was One, His name is Jesus, delighting in us. He wanted us for His pleasure, for His happiness. Yes, boys and girls, men and women, He wants us for His own joy and delight.
Then, coming to this earth of ours, He went everywhere making God’s love known. Jesus came here to show love, the love of God to men. How blessed it is to have a Saviour like that! Jesus has loved me and died for me; He has shed His precious blood for me, and now He lives for me. Do you wonder that I love Him? Soon He is coming for me, He de lights in me so much that He wants me to be with Him. I am necessary to His happiness. He has done more for me than I can tell. He is more to me than I can express. Every believer in Jesus is more to Him than worlds, and soon He is going to prove in the fullest possible way how precious I am to Him, and He to me. He will receive me to Himself. As we delight to tell you that He is all this to us, I wonder if you can say, “Me too.”
Jesus, Lord Jesus,
Thy name is sweet, my Saviour:
Soon shall I see Thee face to face,
My wondrous, blessed Saviour.
Messages of God’s Love 2/27/1921