At the close of a gospel meeting in the West Indies, a woman stayed behind as the others left. She had a very worried look.
“Will you tell me what is troubling you?” I asked.
“Oh, sir,” she said, “there is something more wanted.”
“Really! What is it?” I asked.
“Well,” she said, “I really trust in Jesus; I know He died for me, but something more is wanted.”
“You are sure that Jesus died for you?”
“Yes. I am sure of it.”
“And that He is able to save you?”
“I’m sure of that too.”
“Do you think that He is willing to save you?”
“Oh, I know that He is willing” was her earnest reply.
“And you tell me that you really trust Him as your Savior?”
“Yes,” she said, “I do, I really do, but I am not happy. Something more is wanted.”
“There is nothing more wanted to make you safe,” I replied. “If you have really believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, you are as safe as He can make you. Not one person who trusted in Him was ever lost. But it is one thing to be safe and another thing to be sure about it. What you need is to have assurance, and you can have this on the authority of the Word of God.”
“Now, here we have God’s unchanging truth. He said, ‘All that believe are justified.’ Are you a believer?”
“Yes, I am,” she answered.
“Then what does God say about you?” I asked.
“I’m justified,” she answered with a sigh of relief.
“How do you know?”
“It says so there” was her reply.
“Then do you want anything else?”
“Nothing more now; that’s enough!” was her emphatic answer as she saw for the first time, on the authority of God’s Word, that she belonged to the justified because she was one of the “all that believe.”
Thank God! His Word is true, and upon the authority of God’s Word every believer may say, “I’m justified.”
I quoted those same words to a young fellow in Canada who was longing to have peace with God.
“Let me look at that verse,” he said. “I never saw it like that before.”
Slowly he read the verse over, and then rubbing his eyes he exclaimed, “Praise God, I’m justified.”
“How do you know that?” I asked.
“Why, the Book says so” was his triumphant reply.
Yes, the Book that never lies says, “By Him, all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses.”
Well might we praise God!