THERE was a lady in my neighborhood who had been in deep anxiety about her soul's salvation. She read her Bible, prayed over and over again, yet could get no rest to her soul.
But one day she came looking so happy that I knew something had occurred.
“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 friend, do not try to make yourself a Christian before you come to Christ. Sinners appear before God accepted, and enter heaven, on the ground that Christ died for sinners (Rom. 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)). “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
The blood of Christ is the true ground of peace. When nothing else could save, God spared not His own Son. The death of Christ both satisfies the demands of law and justice, and saves the sinner that believes. It is only in the finished work of the cross that we see salvation for the lost.