IS God able to save me?” was the question of one who was manifestly in the power of the great enemy. “Yes,” I answered. “God is able to save you. That is a settled matter. But the question is, Are you willing to be saved?” This set things in a new light, and my inquirer had to look into himself for an answer to the question, Why was he not saved?
Now, unsaved reader, God is willing you should be saved, so willing that He has given His Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)). He is so willing that you should be saved, that He has imposed no hard conditions; He has fixed no price to be paid; He has appointed no time during which you must wait. You are invited to make the gift of eternal life yours, and the only condition is that you receive it.
You are not asked to come to Him, although you are a sinner, but because you are a sinner, for it was to save the “lost” that Jesus came. You ask when may this gift be yours. God answers, Now.
“Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace” Job 22:2l.
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