Dear little Minnie was just eight years old when she accepted the Lord as her Saviour.
Not very long after, a little friend wrote to her, wishing her “a happy New Year.” Quite of her own accord, she wrote back to tell her friend how very happy God had made her, begging her to come to the Lord Jesus and own herself a sinner. How much I would like to see that letter, wouldn’t you? Well, we do not have the letter, but we have some of the words that were in it, and I will tell you presently what they were.
When people are troubled about their sins, whether they are big people or little people, they sometimes think the Lord is unwilling to have anything to do with them; and even though they see other people rejoicing in Christ, they take no comfort. Why not? Because they think that those who are rejoicing in Christ were never so bad as they, or that they were more earnest in seeking the Lord.
But this dear little girl had very little experience about other people’s thoughts and feelings on this subject; yet hear now what she writes to her young friend. After entreating her to come to the Lord Jesus, this is the way she pleads: “Jesus is so willing to save you. I was not worth having more than you; none of us are worth anything but He is so full of grace.” Every word is full of truth and meaning. “Jesus is SO willing” to save even you, dear little reader, and will you hang back? How sad to think that you should do so! But perhaps you will say, “I am willing.” Well then, only believe little Minnie’s testimony, and the thing is done. Better still, only believe the Lord Jesus Himself, who said, “Come unto Me... and I will give you rest.” Matt. 11:2828Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28). Believe in Him and you are saved. Now at once, believe Him, for “He is so full of grace.” Why, then, wait another moment?
“I wish,” said little Minnie, speaking to a Christian friend, “that everybody I love, and everybody you love, and everybody any of us loves and prays for, would be converted right now, and then the Lord would come to take us all together to Himself.”
What a precious thought for a little child of eight.
ML 03/28/1954