A YOUNG woman went to a meeting where she heard the children’s hymn:
“I am so glad that our Father in heaven
Tells of His love in the Book He has given:
Wonderful things in the Bible I see;
This is the dearest, that Jesus loves me.
I am so glad that Jesus loves me,
Jesus loves me, Jesus loves even me.”
While this hymn was being sung, she began to feel for the first time in her life that she was a sinner. All her sins came up in array before her; and so numerous and aggravated did her sins appear, that she imagined that she could never be saved.
“Jesus cannot love me,” she said in her heart; “He could not love a sinner such as me.”
She went home in a state of extreme mental anguish, and did not sleep that night. She earnestly sought relief of her distress, and learned to her astonishment, and her joy, that Jesus could love sinners, that He did love sinners—nay that He does still love sinners. She saw in the light of the Word of God that it was for sinners that Jesus died, and for none others. When she learned this she, too, began to sing:
“I am so glad that Jesus loves me
Jesus loves me, Jesus loves even me,”
and became in every respect a consistent disciple of the Lord.
ML 08/20/1922