ONE day I saw a little girl, and I asked her, “Do you love the Lord Jesus?”
“No,” she said, “but I want to very much.”
“Why?” I inquired, and her reply was, “Because I am a sinner. I have tried to be good, but I do want to come, and to love Him.”
“My dear,” I said, “think for a few moments of these two verses: “Jehovah hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all,’ and, ‘His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.’ Now, if God laid your sins on the Lord Jesus, and He bore them, where are they?”
“Well,” she said very slowly, “if God put them on Jesus, and He bore them, can’t bear them too.”
“No, dear,” I answered, “but let us look at it like this. God hated sin, He could not look upon it, and must punish it, but the Lord Jesus loved little Emily, and bore her sins and her punishment instead of her, upon the cross.”
She looked up so brightly, and said, “Is that what trust or believe means? Then I do trust, and I will give Him my heart now. I want Him to take my heart now. I do trust Him.”
I think little Emily, then and there, really put her trust in the Lord Jesus, her Savior.
To you, dear children, who feel your need of the Savior, I would say, Come to Him, as Emily did, in all your sins, for He will save you. Take your place before God as a sinner, and ask Him to show you the Lord Jesus on the cross hearing our sins.
The Lord Jesus shed His blood for sinners, and all who put their trust in Him, have their sins washed away, and are made whiter than snow.
ML-11/14/1920