IN INDIA a heartless Hindu I father placed his motherless little baby girl by the side of the road and abandoned her. The helpless little thing was picked up and tenderly cared for by a Christian lady in a home where she and other rescued children were taught the sweet story of the Saviour’s love. Rose is now 14, a bright Christian girl.
During the recent famine in India, a number of sick and starved little girls were brought to this Christian home. The mother appealed to the older girls to adopt as their special care one of these famine-stricken little children. Among the first to respond was Rose, the gentle Christian girl who had once herself been an outcast. She did not choose the prettiest and most attractive baby, but a poor, thin wasted little thing. One of the other girls thoughtlessly asked, “Why did you choose one like that? She looks so funny!”
Rose answered so nobly. “To take a poor sad-looking little child instead of a pretty one is love.”
Rose’s choice reminds us of the love of the Lord Jesus who did not seek out the attractive, but the vile; not the righteous, but sinners. Think of this happy little foster mother with her little charge upon her knee and then recall those wonderful words, “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us.” 1 John 4:1010Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10). When we were not good, not worthy of being loved and not wanting to be loved, still He loved us. “God commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Rom. 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8).
ML-05/16/1976