GREAT was the joy in the farmhouse when Johnny confessed, with his mouth the Lord Jesus. Both father and mother knew and loved the Saviour, and their thanksgivings, I doubt not, rose from full hearts that their boy, for whom they so often and so earnestly prayed, had at last found joy and peace in believing.
Some special meetings for children had been held in a tent two or three miles from his home, and Johnny had attended again and again, hearing the oft-told, oft-heard story, and had at last believed it.
Well, he had known that he was a sinner, lost and undone, with a heart deceitful and wicked; but now he learned the love of God to such sinners as he, of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, who came into the world to save sinners, and who suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring them to God, and that now He was risen, and seated at the right hand of God in glory.
Taking God at His word, and asking no questions, little Johnny believed the simple message and reaching home, gladdened his mother’s heart with the joyous news.
“I know I am whiter than snow now, mother, for the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanseth from all sin;” and proceeded to tell how he had at last believed God’s message of salvation through Christ.
Have you believed on Him in your heart, my young reader? If so, have you confessed Him with your lips? In Rom. 10 it is written, “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
“Jesus died upon the tree,
Jesus rose triumphantly,
Jesus only—perfect plea—
Christ alone can save thee.”
ML 04/30/1916