Between Saddle and Ground

From: Messages of God's Love: 1978

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Duration: 1min

• 1 min. read • grade level: 5

A wild reckless young man was riding his horse one day, when his horse stumbled and fell throwing him to the ground. Before he hit the ground, fearing that he would be killed, he cried to God in the act of falling, and was saved before he reached the ground.

Was his conversion permanent? His changed life from that moment showed that it was. Later on he became a well-known servant of Christ and wrote some lines beginning:

“Between the saddle and the ground

I mercy sought and mercy found.”

“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us.” (Titus 3:5⁵Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; (Titus 3:5).)

ML-10/29/1978

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