Sometimes young children who know the Lord Jesus as their Saviour think there is nothing they can do to thank Him for saving them. But I want to tell you a story about three little girls and what they did for the Lord Jesus.
They were happily singing together a song that I think most of you know by heart:
“Jesus loves me, this I know,
For the Bible tells me so;
Little ones to Him belong,
They are weak, but He is strong.”
“Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.”
I expect that most of you children could sing that song right along with the three girls. They were sitting out on the porch while they were singing, and a neighbor man who lived in the next house heard them. He must have heard the words they sang, because he thought, “Those little girls sound so happy. I’d like to be happy like that too.”
Then he had an idea. “I think I have a Bible in my house somewhere.” He went to look for it. Sure enough, there it was on the bookshelf. He knew that Jesus lived back in New Testament Bible times, so he started reading in the Book of Matthew.
He became so interested in what Jesus did and said that he began to read his Bible every day. It wasn’t very long before he realized that he needed to be saved from his sins and that he could be saved if he just asked the Lord Jesus to save him. So he did just that.
Of course, the Lord Jesus always answers a prayer like that, and that neighbor man was saved! It all started because three little girls were singing happily about how the Lord Jesus loved them.
ML-08/10/2014