When I was four or five, I remember going to a little afternoon Bible Class with children from both my day school and Sunday school. The teacher, my friend’s mother, told us that God loved us so much that He gave His beloved Son to die for each one of us. She used pictures, stories and songs to help us understand.
One day she gave each of us a small round mirror for our very own. On its reverse side were these words from the Bible: “For 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 3:1616For 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)). She told us to look in the mirror and we would see the person for whom God gave His only Son on the cross.
It wasn’t too long after attending that class that I knew that I was that person who needed to have my sins washed away in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s only Son. I think that verse on the back of the mirror, and also the prayers of my dear parents and grandparents, were used of God to help me see that I needed the Saviour.
All of those faithful old people are now with the Lord Jesus in heaven, and if He should come today, I would gladly join them around the throne of God in heaven. Would you be there with us too?
Around the throne of God in heaven,
Will many children sing;
Children whose sins are all forgiven,
Will heavenly anthems bring,
Singing, “Glory, glory, glory be to God on high!”
ML-09/08/1996