Standing on a railway platform I overheard a brief conversation. A gentleman speaking from the train asked a porter who was near the door of the compartment how he was "getting on.”
The reply came quickly and clearly. "There has been a radical change, sir! I am a Christian now.”
As one who knew the porter, I could testify to the truth of his statement. There had been a "radical change" in his life; indeed a change that only the Christ of God through the operation of the Holy Spirit could have effected.
Wife-beater, drunkard, swearer, he had been the terror of his home and the byword of the village; but through the preaching of the gospel and the testimony of a fellow worker, he had been led to see himself as a guilty, lost, hell-deserving sinner, and had turned to Him who is the sinner's Savior.
Now home was home for the wife and the little ones. Swearing lips had become praying lips, and Christ in his life was realized and enjoyed and manifested.
Have you been the subject of such "a radical change"? If not, whatsoever your condition is, be it moral or immoral, religious or irreligious, you are, to use the words of 2 Cor. 4:33But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: (2 Corinthians 4:3), "lost.”