MANY of our readers may perhaps have met with the incident of a little girl who, on seeing a poor man being taken to prison by a policeman, ran across the road, and looking up into his downcast eyes, quietly said, "God loves you.”
These touching words came as a surprise to the unhappy man. If he had ever heard such words before, it was now they entered the poor man's heart.
“God loving me?" he thought to himself. "Why should He love me?" Yes, why indeed? But this is the manner of God. “God commendeth His love to us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us?” (Rom. 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)). Is not this love wonderful? And have you, my dear reader, ever considered it? If not, ponder it now. Believe and receive it into your heart. We who are saved can say by God's grace, "We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love" (1 John 4:1616And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16)). If you believe this love with your heart, you too will be able to appropriate these words, and will know yourself as no longer a " miserable sinner," but as a rejoicing saint of God" Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace.”
Despise it not, but consider it, believe it now, and bless God for His unspeakable gift of Jesus.