It was a beautiful day when little Frank came out of school. When he had nearly reached home, he saw a poor woman carrying a heavy branch of a tree that had been blown off some days before.
“Let me help you,” said the good-natured child, and with difficulty he carried the other end of the branch.
“Many thanks, Frank!” said the Wan. “Ah! if somebody could help me to carry the burden of my sins, how happy I would be, but I carry them day after day, and they seem to get heavier and heavier.”
“But,” said the child, “mother says that we need not carry the burden of our sins, and that if we believe in Jesus, He it is who has carried them for us.” The woman told us later that at that same moment everything became clear to her.
“I had always tried to please God, and in that way to get rid of the burden of my sins; and each day I was more unhappy, but the child’s words brought to my mind what the Bible tells us: “He bore our sins in His own body on the tree.” 1 Peter 2:2424Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter 2:24).
ML 02/24/1946