A pleasure craft was sailing down the river one day when a boy fell overboard. Someone threw him a life belt. He caught hold of it, and was drawn to safety.
The drowning boy cast himself on the life belt; he trusted himself to it, and was saved. That was faith.
Christ is the lifebelt: “in whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation.” Eph. 1:13.
Christ is the lifebelt. “Look unto Me, and be ye saved,... for I am God and there is none else.” Isa. 45:22. “I, even I, am the Lord; and beside Me there is no saviour.” Isa. 43:11.
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