A soldier lay very ill in a hospital. A visitor addressed him thus: "What is your church?”
"The church of God," was the answer.
"But I mean of what persuasion are you?”
"Persuasion!" said the dying soldier. "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 me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, my 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).
Reader, I ask you to turn from every church, sect, and party to the blessed Lord Jesus Christ, to His precious blood, to His finished work, to the right "persuasion.”
What is the right persuasion? Why, the Spirit of the living God has ransacked creation, and cannot find anything which would separate me from the love of God in Christ. "Me!" the saved sinner! "Me!" the richest trophy of divine grace.
Are you persuaded of this? Do you believe that your sins have been atoned for, and then forgiven? Are you "persuaded" of the full, present, and eternal forgiveness of sins-of your sins? If so, you can say: "I am persuaded that the link of God's love will never be snapped; that creation above, beneath, past, present, future, cannot sever the everlasting tie formed between me and the eternal Lover of my soul.”
"Yet A Little While, And He That Shall Come, Will Come, And Will Not Tarry.”
Hob. 10:37.
"Prepare To Meet Thy God.”