WHAT is the best news you ever heard? This was the question of a teacher as she looked around her Sunday school class of girls and boys. Bright eyes sparkled, and intelligence beamed on many faces. At last several hands were held up, and many and varied were the answers given. One said, “That father was coming home from a long trip.” Another replied, “That I was to have a new dress.” A third, “That I had won a prize at school,” and so on. At last a little girl, with a happy, sunny face said, “Teacher! The best news I ever heard was that Jesus came to save sinners.”
Can each of you, my readers, say this? The Apostle Paul counted it “a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.”
Do not be satisfied until you have made this good news your own. A piece of good news which has come to a stranger does not affect you, but here is good tidings—a message straight to you. “The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:1010For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10). You cannot be too young, or too old, too rich or too poor—for Christ adds the best news of all, “Him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out.”
ML-03/27/1960