A small boat 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 pulled to safety.
The drowning boy cast himself on the lifebelt; he trusted himself to it and was saved. That was faith.
Christ is the life belt: “In Whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation.” (Eph. 1:13.)
Christ is the life belt: “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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