Or, How God Looks at Sin
A CHRISTIAN lady who was visiting a seaside place, asked some little children to come to her every Lord’s-day afternoon to hear about the Lord Jesus.
One afternoon she wanted to tell them what God thought about sin, so she took a microscope, and gave them some very small print to look at through it.
They all exclaimed: “How large the letters seem, and when we look at them without the microscope they are so very small.”
So then the lady told them, “That is the way God looks at sin.”
You see, God measures sin properly, while you and I think it looks very small, We need to look at it through God’s eyes, like the little children did at the small print, through the miscroscope, to see how big it really is, though it looks so small to us.
Now, dear children, perhaps you think it is a very little thing to tell a story, or get out of temper, or be disobedient to your parents; but God does not think it a little thing. God thinks it so big that nothing but the blood of Jesus, His own dear Son, could wash it away; and God loved the world so much, which includes the dear little children, that “He gave His only begotten Son,” to die on the cross, so that His precious blood might wash away all their sins, and “that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Messages of God’s Love 5/16/1915