A little girl, named Dorothy, thought that God only loved good people. In a rather strange way she was led to change her mind about Him. While walking along the road one day, she picked up a piece of paper. She looked at it, and read the printed words,
“FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE——.” Here it stopped, the rest of the Verse being torn off.
“God loved the ‘world’ then He loved everybody. ‘God loved the world,’ then He loved me,” said Dorothy, “for I am part of the ‘world’ that He loved.”
“What did Gad give?” was the queion that puzzled Dorothy. Her heart grew lighter, and her face became brighr, as she dwelt on the blessed thought that God loved her. She was so ignorant of Bible truth that she did not know what God gave to the “world”, Still she had laid hold of the fact that God loved her. She went home smiling.
“What makes you so happy, Dorothy?” was asked of her. Putting her hand in her pocket she produced the paper.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave—.”
“But what did He give?” inquired one “I don’t know,” said the little girl: “but it was very good of God to give anything to the world.”
She was right. It was, indeed, very good of God to give anything to a guilty, sin-blighted world. We deserved nothing but banishment from His presence,
“The wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:2323For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)); but He did not give us the “wages”. Yet He loves us in spite of our sinfulness. He manifested His love in a. wondrous way. God has given the best gift that heaven could afford,
“His only begotten son,” the Lord Jesus Christ.
“That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
How simple. He loved you, and died for you on Calvary’s cross, that you might be His. Eternal life may be yours now! Why, then, delay? Believe on Him who loved you and gave Himself for you, and you will be able to say,
“God loved: God gave. I believe, and I have everlasting life.”
ML 07/20/1941