A WILLING sacrifice is one of the purest joys one can know. Truly as the Lord Jesus said, “It is more blessed to give than to reive.”
There were three young sisters saved by God’s grace during some gospel meetings. They were orphan girls, and all worked at one of the plants in town. They lived together in a humble cottage home. It bame a Bethel where Jesus dwelt, and from that home there went out a quiet influence among their neigors and those with whom they worked. It was their great joy to win other girls for Christ.
One night when they returned home from work Linda told her siers that another girl she worked with, who was also an orphan, had contracted TB and was going into the sanitarium. The poor girl was broken-hearted at the thought of spending the rest of her days there.
These three Christian sisters decid that one of them would quit work and stay home and take care of the sick girl, and so try to win her for the Lord.
This they did, for three months Afterward, by the grace of God, she entered into life and peace through believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. For nine months after her conveion, she lived rejoicing in His love. Although she suffered much she was a bright witness for the Saviour she loved. Her favorite text was, “He loved me and gave Himself for me.” Gal. 2:2020I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20). When at last the Lord took her home, the three girls took care of all the expenses.
When asked by some friends why they had done all this, their only answer was: “Because He first loved us.”
Live Thou in Me
This world needs Thy compassion and Thy love,
Thy tenderness, to raise it, Lord, above
Its sordid cares, and too the bitter strife,
Into a higher atmosphere and life:
O! Tenderness and Love divine, in me
Abide, that needy hearts may catch some glimpse of Thee.
ML-02/20/1972