I BELIEVE it, because it is in the Bible; but I never knew it before.”
So said a little girl, who lived up on a mountain. I had been asking her what kind of people Jesus came to save.
“Good people, sir,” she replied.
“And are you a good girl?” I asked.
“Yes, I am sure I am.”
“But it says in the Bible that Christ ‘came into the world to save sinners.’ Are you a sinner?”
“O, no, sir, I am really a good girl; ask mother.”
“I believe it, because it is in the Bible; but I never knew it before,” she said.
Dear reader, have you learned the same lesson about yourself that I tried to teach the little girl—that however good you may be to your parents and others, yet in God’s sight you are not good but evil? It is for such that Jesus died.
Confess that you are a sinner and accept Jesus as the great Saviour of sinners.
ML-05/26/1935