A FRIEND of mine who lives in the city of D— had five children, and one evening he thought he would like to know how many of them knew their sins were forgiven, so he called them to him one by one, and asked them each the question, “Have you laid all your sins on Jesus?” Four of them said, ‘‘Yes, Papa, I have.” But when he took his little girl on his knee, who was too young to speak plainly, and asked her if she had laid her sins upon Jesus, she did not answer, so be said, “You have heard all the others tell me that they have laid their sins on Jesus, so I want my little girl to tell me if she has laid her sins on Jesus.” Then the little one looked into her father’s face and said, “No, Papa, Dod did dat.” This was an answer from God’s blessed word, for we are told in the 6th verse of the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
It was at the cross, and no where else, that God did this, so that every one of you who believe on the Lord Jesus as your own Saviour, can say, “He bore my sins in His own body on the tree.” And, dear little boy or girl, if you have thus believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, and know that He had all your sins upon Him at the cross and that now they are all put away from God’s eye, how happy you should be, and how much you should try to please Him in return. Let all around you see that you are loving and serving the blessed Lord Jesus for what He has done for you. E. B. H.
ML 12/17/1899