A friend asked a little girl if she was saved. She replied very confidently she was, because the Lord Jesus had died on the cross for her. He had done all that was needed for her, and she laid great stress on His words,
“It is Finished,” so she could not be lost.
“Yes, I know the Lord Jesus said that, but then, how do you know what they mean?”
“They mean,” she confidently replied, “that Jesus did all, and left nothing for anybody to do, but to believe on Him, and rest in what He did.”
“Yes; but how do you know His work was finished for you?”
“You do ask me a lot of questicas. You want to make me think it is not so; but I know it is.”
“No, darling, I don’t want to make you think it is not so, but I don’t want you to be deceived, and if it is so, I want to rejoice with you.”
“Well,” she said, “I know it is so, bause Jesus said so.”
“Where does he say so?” She them quoted a good deal of Scripture, such as,
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasthig life,” laying stress on die “hath.”
Her sweet, child-like, artless manner was almost too much for me. I felt too choked with grateful emotions to speak.
Dear young reader, is God’s Word enough for you, as it was to dear little Lucy?
Remember, dear young friend, that this is God’s Word, and it is Jesus who said so.
ML 02/02/1941