I suppose you are like other little boys and girls who like to be “first.” You like to say, “I did it first” or “I saw it first.” But have you ever thought who LOVED first?
A little boy name Willie was very sick. One Sunday evening he heard, through his open window, the sounds of singing from an open-air meeting. Willie asked his mother to go down and invite one of the preachers to come up and sing for him. Soon his mother returned with a young man and he asked Willie what hymn he would like to hear.
“Please sir,” said Willie, “sing I Love Jesus, Hallelujah.’”
The young man sang the hymn to please the sick boy, and then he explained that it would be far happier for Willie if he would think about the One who loved FIRST.
It is not because we love Jesus that He loves us. The Bible says, “We love Him, because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:1919We love him, because he first loved us. (1 John 4:19). So we love to hear children sing,
“Jesus loves me, this I know,
For the Bible tells me so.”
ML 04/09/1950