A little girl living in a pretty cottage on the hillside heard a missionary tell how a child, by saving her pennies, had sent a Bible to a Foreign country, which had been the means of leading a young girl to Christ.
Emma Evans had no spare pennies, but she had two hens, and it occurred to her, that by hatching their eggs and selling the chicks, she might be able to buy a Bible and send it to some Indian child, to teach her the way of salvation.
Emma herself knew the Saviour and could truthfully say,
“Jesus is mine.”
She fed her hens well, and reared her chicks for God, and so abundantly did He bless her work that she was soon able to send twelve Bibles to the Lord’s servants in India to be given to orphan girls under their care. Followed by prayer, God blessed them, and Emma had the joy of hearing that some of these Indian girls had been saved through reading the Bibles she sent to them.
It is truly wonderful what a saved child can do for the Lord, and how God blesses the simplest heart-service done for Him. But it needs to be remembered that salvation must come before such service. You need to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour before you can be of any use to God in His work. Saved by grace, then serve Him.
Thus it was with Emma, she had taken Christ as her own personal Saviour, then out of love to Him, she read His Word, and sent it to others, and her service was blessed to many a weary soul.
If you would be blessed, and made a blessing to others, make your own choice first, receive the Lord Jesus as your own Saviour, and confess Him as your Lord.
Have you thus believed on Him, and confessed Him as your Saviour?
“I do believe, I will believe
That Jesus died for me,
That on the cross He shed His blood,
From sin to set me free.”
ML 07/24/1938