Years ago a man was converted to God, but his wife was so bitter about it that she resolved to do away with him if she could.
One evening she waited for him with a weapon in her hand in a dark spot in the woods. She knew her husband would pass there on his way to the Bible study. However, he did not come alone but with two strangers who had met him on the way. So, she decided to wait until his return to do the awful deed.
She paced up and down impatiently, and then it began to rain. When the rain began to pour down heavily, she crept near to the little meeting room in the dark and took shelter under the porch. There she heard all that was said.
The Word of God went to her heart like an arrow from God’s bow. Suddenly she saw her whole life in the light of God and realized her sinful, lost condition. It was a terrible shock to her. Then when the meeting was over, she rushed into the hall, the weapon still in her hand, and cried out: “Is there still grace and mercy for me, the greatest sinner?” Then she confessed her terrible plan.
They prayed with her and assured her the grace of God would forgive her, great indeed as her sin was, for “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound” (Rom. 5:2020Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: (Romans 5:20)).
Weeping and broken hearted, she walked home with her husband. Before the sun rose next morning, she had found salvation and peace in the blood of the Lamb.
“He came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas... and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”
ML-01/09/1977