Tell, me, Jenny, what led you to such a deep sense of sin?”
“O, sir, it was what Mr. McD. told us the other night, about his visiting the garden of Gethsemane, when he was at Jerusalem, and standing in the very place where Jesus was in an agony, and His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” (Luke 22:4444And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. (Luke 22:44)).
The preacher did not know what to make of this, and feared that it was a mere burst of feeling, arising from her emotional nature having been touched by the notice of Gethsemane.
“But, Jennie,” he said, to prove her, “what had that to do with you?”
“Ah, sir,” she said, “I then saw that Jesus was a real Saviour. Before that He seemed like a story in a book. But when I saw that He was a real Saviour, I then saw that I was a real sinner.”
Reader, blessed be God, there is a real Saviour for you. Your sin is a reality. Men treat it so lightly—make such a mock of it, that it is quite disregarded. They put it away into the darkness, and try to forget it. The all-important matter for you is to know yourself a real sinner, and then come to Jesus who is a real Saviour. “This Man receiveth sinners.” Luke 15:22And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. (Luke 15:2).
ML 08/13/1936