I WAS at a large orphan home for boys. One little fellow attracted my attention, and I said to him,
“Do you love the Lord Jesus?”
“Yes, sir,” was his prompt answer. “Why do you love Him?” I continued. “Because He first loved me,” he replied.
“And how do you know that He loved you?” I went on.
“Because He died for me, sir.” was his ready response.
That little boy loved the Lord Jesus because He first loved him, and he knew that Jesus loved him because He died for him.
Can you say truly, from your very heart,
“JESUS DIED FOR ME?”
If so, you know the Friend for little children, and, believing on Him, are saved for ever.
“I suppose you know that heaven is His Home? Who are going to be in that Home?”
“Those who love Jesus.”
Yes, all those who love the Lord Jesus Christ, the Friend for little children.
In His presence there will be fulness of joy. No one will ever feel the pangs of hunger, nor will the tongue ever lie parched for want of water; sorrow and pain will be forever gone: and God will wipe away all tears from our eyes.
Many know by the grace of God that they will be there. and long even now to be gone to see that living, loving, precious Saviour who died for them. Well may they exclaim.
“O, what a Home! But such His love
That He must bring us there,
To fill that Home, to be with Him,
And all His glory share.
The Father’s house, the Father’s heart.
All that the Son is given
Made ours—the objects of His love
And He, our joy in heaven.”
May God grant that each one of you. dear boys and girls, may meet us in
The Home For Little Children, and then together we will sing the praises of Jesus throughout eternal day, for it is alone through Him, that we shall be found in “His Home.”
ML 09/06/1925