One evening, after a children’s service, a teacher was talking to little Ann who was weeping for her sins, but could not believe that she was pardoned.
“Suppose,” he said, “that Jesus were in this room — what would you do?”
“I would go to Him at once,” she replied.
“And what would you tell Him?” “That I am a lost sinner.”
“And what would you ask Him?” “Oh, I would ask Him if He would forgive me.”
“And what would Jesus answer?”
She hesitated a moment, and then she looked up, smiling through her tears, for at once she saw it all. “Why,” she said, “He would answer, ‘Yes!’ "
And simply trusting in the Saviour’s word she went to Him then and there.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).
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