IT WAS wintertime and the whole countryside was covered with a beautiful white blanket of snow.
Rose was on her way to the neighboring farm to get some milk for Mother. With a small can in her hand she was taking a short cut across the field. About halfway she stopped and took three looks.
She looked around. All was pure and white. The hedges, the trees, the ground, even the houses were all covered with the beautiful snow. “How pure everything is!” she thought.
Then she looked within. She thought of her sins. How many bad words she had spoken! How many lies she had told! How many naughty things she had done! She knew her heart was black with sin, and how different to the snow around her! Her heart drooped with sadness at the thought of it.
Then she looked up, and she thought about Jesus, the Saviour of sinners who never turned any one away.
“Lord Jesus,” the little girl cried, “wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow!”
Did Jesus hear her cry? He surely did, and He answered at once. There in the middle of the field “the great transaction” took place, for little Rose opened her heart to Jesus and felt, as she did so, that His precious blood had cleansed her from all sin and that she was now whiter than snow in His sight.
ML-08/08/1976