There was a certain lady who had been in deep anxiety about her soul. She had read her Bible, prayed over and over again, and could get no rest for her soul. One day she came in to us, 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 trying to make myself a Christian, and to come to the Lord Jesus Christ as such; but having given up, the idea of being a Christian, I found I was a sinner, and I accepted the redemption for the sinner. “Now,” she said, “I know Whom I have believed,—now I know I am saved.”
My dear young friends, don’t try to make yourselves Christians before you come to Christ as sinners. Accept the Lord as your own Saviour, and you will be eternally saved, through the fished work of Christ on the-cross, for lost sinners.
ML 02/13/1938