“Jesus loves me! this I know,
For the Bible tells me so....”
Julie was singing this song as she played in the backyard. Suddenly, she stopped singing and just sat thinking for a minute or two. Then running into the kitchen, she asked, “Mommy, may I please have a needle and some thread?”
“Why yes, dear, you can. But what for?”
“Oh, I have to sew!” Julie answered.
A little later Mother peeked at Julie who was busy with her sewing, her fingers clumsily trying to sew two pieces of scrap cloth together. As she worked she was still singing her song to herself:
“Jesus loves me! this I know,
For the Bible tells me so....”
“You are such a busy little girl today,” Mother said, smiling.
“I’m supposed to be busy,” answered Julie. “I have to sew, because the Bible tells me sew,” and she sang the line of the song to explain it to her mother.
Are you smiling as you think about Julie’s mistake? I wonder if each of us is as anxious to do what the Bible tells us to do as Julie was, even though she was mistaken.
For boys and girls who are saved it says many things too: “Draw nigh unto God,” “Keep thyself pure,” “Children, obey your parents in the Lord,” “In everything give thanks,” and many other things.
When you sing “Jesus loves me” the next time, remember how much Julie wanted to do what the Bible told her to do.
“Jesus loves me! this I know,
For the Bible tells me so;
Little ones to Him belong;
They are weak, but He is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so!”
ML-06/26/1983