Many years ago a converted American Indian met another Indian of the same tribe. He too had previously professed Christianity, but now he was taking part in a snake-dance festival. Asked how it came about that he had returned to his old heathen practices again, his answer was brazenly frank, but sad beyond expression: "Because I love my sins.”
The truth is that men are lost because "they love their sins." They cling to them, and their sins drag them down to eternal woe.
But "God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." That is why He sent His only begotten Son. He came to save His people from their sins.
Friend, are you one of His people? If not, why not? If you are honest you will have to say, like the Indian: "I love my sins." Yes, and more than that, you do not love God at all, nor His Son whose name was called JESUS, because He came to save us from our sins.
A famous physician from Europe came to the United States some years ago. His visit was for the purpose of instructing other physicians in the treatment of a certain baffling disease. He had scarcely any leisure time, but succeeded one day in walking away alone, unnoticed, in the city of Chicago. During his walk a thunderstorm came up with a heavy downpour of rain. To escape being drenched he rang a doorbell and asked for permission to come in until the storm was over.
The woman who opened the door, however, was in distress and in no mood to receive strangers. She answered quite sharply that she could not be bothered. The doctor left, and the woman went back to her household duties. How different it might have been had she known that the man she had turned so unkindly away could have helped her out of her deep trouble! Her daughter, desperately ill from this terrible disease which he could have cured, lost the benefit of the doctor's knowledge and skill. It was discovered too late, and the daughter died.
Reader, don't close the door to the Lord Jesus Christ. Receive Him now and be saved from your sins.
Bow the knee and confess the precious name of Jesus as Savior of your soul.
"Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Phil. 2:9-119Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9‑11).