The following is a short account of the way the Lord can open a door for one very near eternity to hear of the only way of salvation, and by His grace, to accept it.
Having heard that a young man was very ill, I felt led to visit him; but rather drew back on learning that his mother was one who believed salvation was only to be found in “the Church,” and on the ground of merit, through good works, almsgiving, and the sacrifice of the mass; and also that his father had just died suddenly in an outhouse. Still, I felt compelled to go.
The mother opened the door, and showed me into the parlor, where lay the dead body of the father, so suddenly ushered into eternity. After sympathizing with her in her great grief, I asked to see her son, which she readily agreed to. I found him in the last stage of consumption, and I spoke to him of salvation through the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and through that alone. No works, no ordinances, nothing but faith in that precious blood once shed, which cleanseth from all sin.
On my second visit, how thankful was I to hear him say he had found peace through believing that message of salvation through the finished work of the cross, and was quite ready when his call should come.
Oh, how real it is to be born again from heaven! He simply trusted in the atonement of Christ, and we praised God together.
None can undo what God has done through the precious blood of Christ. That, and that alone, gave him peace, and an entrance to heaven.
Dear reader, if you have not trusted the precious blood of Christ, do so NOW ere it be too late, and the door of mercy is closed. “Now is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation” (2 Cor. 6:22(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2 Corinthians 6:2)); and God is. beseeching sinners to be reconciled to Him. But there is only one way to come to Him, as sinners, owning the truth to God; and as the bitten Israelites of old looked to the serpent of brass. and were healed, so our sins are pardoned when we look to Jesus by faith, and know Him as the way, the truth, and the life.
A.C.W.