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Today's Devotional - July 20 & 21
Jesus Loves Me
We love Him because He first loved us.
1 John 4:19
Recommended Reading
1 John 4:15-21
Sisters Anna and Susan Warner made their home on Constitution Island on the Hudson, right across from the Military Academy at West Point. They taught Bible to the cadets, and they wrote some of the most popular novels in the 1800s. In their novel Say and Seal, they told of a fictional boy named Johnny Fox who was dying. His Sunday school teacher, John Linden, comforted him by taking him in his arms, rocking him, and making up a little song: "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so…." When composer William Bradbury read the words of John Linden's little song, he composed music for the lines; and "Jesus Loves Me" was born as a children's hymn.
This song gives us our theology in a thimble. Whether we are living or dying, whether weak or strong, whether rich or poor, whether famous or obscure, we can always rest in this truth: "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so."
Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed equal to the joy of serving Him with all one's heart.
Susan Warner
Read-thru-the-Bible
Isaiah 20-28
Jesus Loves Me
We love Him because He first loved us.
1 John 4:19
Recommended Reading
1 John 4:15-21
Sisters Anna and Susan Warner made their home on Constitution Island on the Hudson, right across from the Military Academy at West Point. They taught Bible to the cadets, and they wrote some of the most popular novels in the 1800s. In their novel Say and Seal, they told of a fictional boy named Johnny Fox who was dying. His Sunday school teacher, John Linden, comforted him by taking him in his arms, rocking him, and making up a little song: "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so…." When composer William Bradbury read the words of John Linden's little song, he composed music for the lines; and "Jesus Loves Me" was born as a children's hymn.
This song gives us our theology in a thimble. Whether we are living or dying, whether weak or strong, whether rich or poor, whether famous or obscure, we can always rest in this truth: "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so."
Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed equal to the joy of serving Him with all one's heart.
Susan Warner
Read-thru-the-Bible
Isaiah 20-28
