“ISN’T that hard work for the little arms?” I asked.
A look of sunshine came into her face as she glanced toward me. “It isn’t hard work when I do it for mamma,” she said, softly.
It was love that caused little Dora to want to help her mamma. She loved her mamma because her mamma loved her, so she did what she could for her.
How this reminds those who know and believe that Jesus loves them, that there should be this same response and delight to live and serve our blessed Lord. And we know this will be, if there is the real belief in the heart, that the Lord Jesus gave Himself for us on Calvary’s cross.
“GREATER LOVE MATT NO MAN THAN THIS: THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.” Jno.15:13
But the love of the Lord is greater, for He gave His life for us, knowing there was no love in our hearts to Him. At first we preferred anything and everything instead of Him, and yet He gave Himself for us. What love, who can measure it! And what response must be expected from us?
But it may be that the one who is reading these lines has not taken the Lord Jesus as his Saviour, so is still a rejecter of the very One who loves him. If so, I beseech you, dear reader, do not spurn that love any longer, but bow now and accept from His hand, full and free salvation which has cost Him so much.
ML 10/21/1917