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.

“The Lord Jesus cannot love me,” she said in her heart; “He cannot love a sinner such as me.”

She went home in a state of great sorrow, and did not sleep that night. She earnestly sought relief in her distress, and learned to her astonishment and her joy that the Lord 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 other. 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.

“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” 1 Timothy 1:15¹⁵This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. (1 Timothy 1:15).

ML 08/17/1941

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