One wintry afternoon I set out to call on a little girl who had been absent from her usual place in Sunday school.
While I was on the way a bad storm came up, and I was nearly blinded by the heavy snow-fall.
My first thought was to go back. Then, remembering how hard it was for me to get away from home, I decided I must not lose this opportunity. So I went on through the storm. On reaching the house I knocked at the door, and who do you think came to open it? The very little girl I had come to see.
When she saw me her little face brightened as she exclaimed,
"You must like me, or you would never have come to see me on a clay like this!"
Such was my reward for the effort I had made, She felt that only love would lead me to come through such a storm, and she was happy to have that proof that I loved her.
And because she appreciated my love for her, I too, was happy—so happy that it seemed much easier coming borne, than it did going, although it was still storming,
And I was glad and thankful that the Lord had led me to show this dear little girl that I had an interest in her never-dying soul.
Dear children, this little incident illustrates in a feeble way, the love of the Lord Jesus.
He left His happy home in heaven to bring us the glad news of salvation. And His journey through the world to do this, was a very hard one. He met with sorrow and trouble on every hand.
Yet He never turned back. He kept right on in the path which led to that terrible cross. And on that cross, He bore the storm of God's wrath. He suffered in our stead the punishment we deserve,—all to prove His WONDERFUL LOVE for you and for me.
Does it not make your heart rejoice to think of such love? He died that YOU might live. 'Does not this awaken love in your heart?
Dear children, if you have learned God's love for you, if you have loved Him in return, and are trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, God wants you to show that love in your daily walk. He wants your face to brighten at the thought of Him, at the sound of His Name. And He wants you' to do only the things that will please Him.
Messages of God’s Love 2/2/1930