A missionary to India tells the following story: “A poor Hindu boy followed me around the garden asking me to make him a Christian. ‘That is impossible for me to do, my dear boy,’ I told him; ‘It is only possible through the Lord Jesus. Pray to Him.’
“How well I remember the sweet voice and face of that boy, when he came to me soon after and said, ‘The Lord Jesus Christ has come, and has taken up his place in my heart.’ ‘How is that,’ I asked. He replied, ‘I prayed, and said, “O Lord Jesus Christ, if it pleases Thee, make me a Christian!” and He was so kind, that He came down from heaven, and has lived in my heart ever since.’”
How simple and how touching! Have you appealed to the Saviour in a similar spirit, dear one? Can you say that He has come down from heaven to live in your heart? He wants to. Yet He must cleanse that heart of yours from sin first. And this He will do, for “the blood of Jesus Christ... cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).
ML 05/05/1968