A little girl whom I knew was one of the brightest I have met. Look at her happy face, then hear the story of how she passed from darkness to light, from death to life.
One Sunday night, at the close of a Gospel meeting, a servant of the Lord said,
“If any one goes out of this meeting unsaved, he or she will be trampling the Lord Jesus under his or her feet.”
As I was passing out of the hall door I thought to myself, what a terrible thing it was to trample Jesus under my feet!
Two weeks after I was very much troubled about my soul, but did not wish any one to know it. I did not go to the meeting that night, and to put away the thought of eternity, I began to play. For the time being I forgot the fact that I had to die and pass into eternity to meet a holy God; but when bedtime came I was deeply troubled again, and began to wonder how I could be saved.
As I lay awake—for I could not sleep —I heard father and mother talking in the next room about the Lord’s Coming. Father said,
“Well, I wish the Lord would come before morning.” When I heard this I cried,
“O, mother, if Jesus comes before morning I won’t go with Him to Heaven.” Father answered, and said,
“It is your own fault, because you won’t receive Jesus as your Saviour.”
Mother brought me a Bible. I opened it and read the 5th chapter of Romans, but the light did not come from that. Then I turned to John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16), and read it thus, “For God so loved (name in), that He gave His only begotten Son, that if (name in) believeth on Him”—I stopped here and asked mother what that word “believeth” meant, and she replied,
“If I said I would give you a cent you would take me at my word, would you not?”
“Yes.”
“Well, she said, “the Lord Jesus offers you the gift of eternal life; don’t you think He’ll give it to you?”
At that moment I grasped the truth, that the Lord Jesus died that I might have eternal life; and could finish the glorious verse, “that if (name in) believeth in Him (name in) shall not perish, but (name in) shall have Everlasting Life.”
Now I am satisfied with the Lord Jesus, and happy in the knowledge that my sins are all forgiven, and undetand the meaning of,
Surely if this little girl was saved by the Lord Jesus Christ, any other girl or boy may be the same.
“All have sinned and come short of the glory of God,” shows our lost condition before God, but the next is
“I am happy in knowing that my sins are all forgiven.”
Will you accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour, and will you do so NOW?
ML 09/30/1945