"Doctor, do you think I shall get better?" What a solemn question to put and how hard to answer!
Friend, would you be ready to hear the truth if, lying on a sick-bed, you had the thought, "Shall I get better? Amos 1 going to die?" Then would the unwelcome fact present itself to your mind: "If I die it is all a blank! I have no certainty, no 'sure foundation,' no place of refuge"? Or would the still more terrible truth force itself upon you: "I am unsaved! I have all my sins upon me! Death is near, 'and after death the judgment'?”
This, thank God, was not the case with the dear man who asked the first question. He was speaking to a learned and renowned physician at the time. "Not that I am afraid to die," he added. "I haven't to go searching about for a Savior now; I've got one!”
What a blessed confession! He had had need of a Savior; that he had found out. He had required one. He could not save himself; he could not help in any way to save his lost soul. A Savior either saves or does not. He does not do part of the work; He does all or none. Not only had he learned his need, but he had found the One who had met that need—the One who "came to seek and to save that which was lost." A blessed Savior!
"Enduring the grief and the shame,
And bearing our sins on the cross;
Oh, who would not boast of such love,
And count the world's glory but dross!”
It was a glorified Savior who had been on the cross that this man now knew. And it is a glorified Savior who "has been dead and is alive again" that I ask you in all earnestness, do you know?
Would you have to search about for Him? You may never be able to do so. What a comfort that this dear man did not now have to seek Him! If such had been the case, he had little time in which to do so. He spoke these words one afternoon; on the next morning he was called without further warning to be with that Savior forever.
"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Rom. 8:38, 3938For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38‑39).