THERE was once a little boy named Alec who was often told about the Lord Jesus. r His mother used to read stories to him out of God's book of the wonderful works of Jesus.
Perhaps you could tell some yourself! How once He fed five thousand people, who had followed Him, from a few loaves and two little fishes, and made them enough to feed a great company of people; how sick people were brought in beds in the cool of the evening and Jesus healed them all; how He loved little children and took them in His arms and blessed them and would not let them be sent away.
Alec loved to hear these stories.
He had a beautiful boat given him to sail on a pond near his home and he thought it was the finest thing he had ever had, so one night when he knelt down before getting into bed, he said,
"Lord Jesus, I give You my boat, because I love You so."
I am sure, quite sure, that the Lord Jesus looked into Alec's heart and saw that he really loved Him, and was glad to find it was so, but He wanted something more than his boat.
The Lord Jesus wanted the very best and biggest thing that Alec could give—He wanted himself.
There are a great many children who give to God; they give their pennies and many other things, but what He wants first of all is yourself.
I wonder if you have ever given yourself to Him!
A little girl called Ruth wanted to give herself to Jesus, so one night before she got into bed she knelt down and after she had thanked the Lord Jesus for all His goodness to her, she said,
"Lord Jesus, I give myself to You and everything I have."
You know what it says in the fifteenth chapter of Luke—that there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth. Repenting means turning away from yourself and turning to God. It is saying to Jesus,
"I am so sorry that I have done just what I liked and have been troublesome and wanted everything for myself; but I give myself to Thee, Lord Jesus, to seek to please Thee from this evening."
The Lord Jesus makes everything so simple for little children. He does not want them to think it is only the grown-up people He invites to come to Him.
He says, "Come unto Me." Perhaps you will wonder how to come to Jesus, when He is in heaven and you are on earth. He can hear you and see you, and every thought of your heart is known to Him—so that coming to Him means, accepting Him as your Saviour, the one who died to save you, and giving yourself to Him, just as Ruth did.
We can send our thoughts and our desires as messages to Him, just as you would if your parents were away from home. Perhaps you would telephone or write to them, and you would be sure to get messages and letters from them.
God's Word, the Bible, is full of messages from Him to us, and the more you read it the more you will see how full His heart is of love and goodness towards you. Don't go to bed to-night without coming to the Lord Jesus, and accepting Him as your Saviour.
Messages of God’s Love 3/27/1932