I Believe
John 9:38
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by Jon L. Joyce

Children in church school sing "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." To retain this simple belief all through life is the kernel of Christian faith. Jesus said "unless we have faith as a little child" we will not enter into the kingdom. In a sense we always remain "children" of the heavenly father. One time the world-renowned theologian Karl Barth was asked what he would consider the greatest truth he had discovered in all his reading and thinking. His astonishingly simple reply was, "The greatest truth I have ever learned is ‘Jesus loves me.’ " In childhood and in the wisdom of maturity this is the great essential of Christian faith. Like the man healed of blindness we must "see" that Jesus, who revealed the power of God, loves us, and say to Christ, "Lord, I believe.

CSS Publishing, Lima, Ohio, His Hands, by Jon L. Joyce