CAN you, dear reader, answer this question, and say, “He came to save me?”
The apostle Paul, in writing to Timothy, says, “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.” (1 Tim. 1:55Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: (1 Timothy 1:5).) And again (Gal. 2:2020I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)) he says, “The Son of God... loved me, and gave Himself for me.”
The other day I asked a very little boy the question at the head of this paper, “Whom did the Lord Jesus come to save?” He immediately replied, “Me.”
How simple! A little child can grasp it.
Have you ever been into His presence, and can you say, not only, “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,” but that you are a sinner He came to save? Have you ever had your eyes opened to the fact that you, a sinner, need a Saviour, and that if you should die in your sins, “without God,” without Christ, you have “no hope” for eternity, nothing before you but the lake of fire? (See Eph. 2:1212That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: (Ephesians 2:12); Rev. 20:1515And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:15).)
Let me entreat you to take God at His word now. He is not willing that any should perish. He bids you look to Jesus—believe in Jesus, and Jesus only. A little child who has believed in the Lord Jesus may understand very little, but it is not the full understanding of the work of Christ, or the amount of our appreciation of it, that saves—it is the preciousness of that blessed work to God. Directly you believe, God’s thoughts about the work of His beloved Son are made good to you.
Let me again press the question, “Can you put the word me to the end of the quotation at the head of this paper?”
E. G.