A little girl whom I knew was one of the brightest I have met. Look at her happy face, then hear the story of how she passed from darkness to light, from death to life.
One Sunday night, at the close of a Gospel meeting, a servant of the Lord said,
“If any one goes out of this meeting unsaved, he or she will be trampling the Lord Jesus under his or her feet.”
As I was passing out of the hall door I thought to myself, what a terrible thing it was to trample Jesus under my feet!
Two weeks after that I was very much troubled about my soul, but did not wish any one to know it. I did not go to the meeting that night, and to put away the thought of eternity, I began to play. For the time being I forgot the fact that I had to die and pass into eternity to meet a holy God; but when bed time came I was deeply troubled again, and began to wonder how I could be saved.
As I lay awake—for I could not sleep— I heard father and mother talking in the next room about the Lord’s Coming. Father said,
“Well, I wish the Lord would come before morning.” When I heard this I cried.
“O, mother, if Jesus comes before morning I won’t go with Him to Heaven. “Father answered and said,
“It is your own fault, because you won’t receive Jesus as your Saviour.”
“For God so loved (me), that He gave His only begotten Son, that if (I) believe on Him”—I stopped here and asked mother what that word “believeth” meant, and she replied,
If I said I would give you a cent, you would take me at no, word, would you not?”
“Yes.”
“Well,” she said, “the Lord Jesus offers you the gift of eternal life; don’t you think He’ll give it to you?”
At that moment I grasped the truth, that the Lord Jesus died that I might have eternal life; and could finish the glorious verse, “that if (I) believeth in Him, (I) shall not perish, but (I) shall have Everlasting Life.”
Now I am satisfied with the Lord Jesus, and happy in the knowledge that my sins are all forgiven, and understand the meaning of
Surely if this little girl was saved and satisfied by the Lord Jesus Christ, any other girl, or boy either, may be the same. Will you read Romans 3, verses 20 to 23, and learn your lost condition; then read verses 24 to 26 and learn how God saves the lost; then put your name into John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16), and you may say as she says,
“I am happy in the knowledge that my sins are all forgiven.”
Will you accept the Lord Jesus Christ, and will you do so now?
ML 10/11/1936