There was a lady in my neighborhood who had been in deep anxiety about her salvation. She read her Bible, prayed over and over again, and could get no rest to her soul.
But one day she came looking so happy that I knew something had transpired.
“You are happy now,” I said.
“Yes,” she replied, “I am. I found the secret at last. I was endeavoring to make myself out a Christian, and to come to God as such; but having dropped the idea of being a Christian, I found redemption for the sinner. Now,” said she, “I know Whom I have believed—now I know what and where I am.”
Ah, dear young friends! don’t try to make yourselves Christians before you come to Christ. Sinners appear before (..ccl accepted, and enter heaven, on the ground of what Christ has done for the lost.
ML 09/27/1931