I KNOW a Person who has a Lamb. I wonder if you know Him. The Person I mean is God, and His name is Love. Have you ever been told about Him, and about God’s Lamb? Who do you think God’s Lamb is? God’s Lamb is Jesus Christ, His own beloved Son, who which is full of sorrow and sinful people, both old and young.
Do you know, dear young friend, what this world did to Jesus, God’s Lamb? It put Him to death. Yes, wicked men took Jesus, and put on Him a purple robe, and platted a crown of thorns and put in on His head, and spit on Him, and then led Him away to a place called Golgotha there came down into this world to save poor sinful men, women and children, who could not do a single thing to save themselves. He must have loved them very much indeed, to have come down here and left His Father and His bright, happy home above, where no sin, or sorrow, or naughty, sinful people are—down to this world they crucified Him on the cross, and gave Him vinegar to drink, and left Him there until He died.
What did God’s beloved Lamb do when these wicked men treated Him so cruelly? Did He do them harm in return? O, no! He prayed for them, and said: “Father, forgive them; they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:2424And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required. (Luke 23:24).)
Perhaps you will ask, Why did Jesus say, “They know not what they do”?
Because they did not believe that He was God’s Lamb; and when that patient, loving Jesus told them that He was God’s Son, they put Him to death.
Now what does God say to all (boys and girls as well as grown people) who believe that Jesus Christ is God’s Son, and God’s Lamb also, who shed His blood on the cross?
God says, they shall never perish, but have everlasting life, and when Jesus, God’s Lamb, comes again, as. He certainly will, or if they die before He comes, God will take them to be with Himself in heaven, where God’s Lamb now is; and no one ever dies there; no sickness, or pain, or tears, or sorrow there, and they will live forever and ever with Jesus. O, do you want to go and live with Jesus, Who is so loving and gentle, and is always the same?
Then believe in Him, trust Him, and God says that He will take you there.
Perhaps you will say, But I am not good enough; I have done so many naughty things! No, you are not good enough, and more than that, you cannot make yourself any better.
But listen a moment, and I will tell you what God, whose name is Love, says about you. God says you are a sinner, and cannot do any good thing; but that if you believe in Jesus, and trust in His most precious blood, all your sins have been paid for, and forever put away, by that blood which He tells you to believe in. Are you trusting in the blood of Jesus, God’s own Lamb? Then you are safe, and God will never let you perish.
ML 03/18/1917