A VERSE in Psalm L. says: “Whoso offereth praise glorifieth Me.” (Find and read the verse.)
I want to give you three little stories about praising the Lord—true stories of three little girls who loved to praise Him.
1. Robbie and Edgar and Dottie had all been to Sunday-school together. It was the latter’s first experience, and when the three came into the room where their mother was sitting, the little girl exclaimed, with shining eyes: “I know ‘Jesus loves me’ and I sang it, Mamma.” “But she’s got such a tiny voice, nobody could hear her,” Robbie remarked.
“Oh yes, God could hear her, ‘cause He hears everything,” said Edgar.
“That is a very lovely thought,” said the mother, “It was quite right for Dottie to sing the hymn she knew, even though she could not make much sound. I am sure God heard her sweet little voice and blessed her for using it to sing His praise.”
Alice was seated in her little rocking chair, her doll upon her lap, and as she rocked gently to and fro she sang in a sweet, low voice:
“Saviour, teach me day by day
Love’s sweet lesson to obey,
Sweeter lesson cannot be—
Loving Him who first loved me.”
“Why do you sing that hymn so much, Alice?” asked her brother Tom, as he stopped work on the kite he was making to look across the room at his sister.
“Because my teacher told me Jesus likes to hear little children sing it, and that’s why I love to sing it,” Alice replied.
Could Alice have given a better reason for singing her little hymn? Truly, Jesus does love to hear little children praise Him and this is one way they can glorify Him.
“Dear Jesus, I thank Thee for making such beautiful sand for me to play in,” said Lucy in her heart, as she was playing one summer day by the sea-shore.
ML 03/08/1903