Reading a Greek Testament one day in the second and third chapters of the Gospel of John, a young lady came to the word "believeth" in chapter 3, verse 15.
"Surely that word occurred in the previous chapter," she said to herself. Looking back, she saw that the phrase "commit-himself-unto" in chapter 2 was exactly the same in the original as the word "believe" in chapter 3, verse 15.
Thus God showed her that "believing" meant simply committing herself with all her unbelief and sin to Jesus. On Him her soul rested in the strength and love of her Savior.
It is this simple "committing of ourselves" to Jesus that the great enemy of our souls tries to persuade us is difficult. The very words "faith" and "believing" become so familiar to us that they seem almost to have lost their first simple meaning, and to some minds they become words of vague import.
But, friend, the Lord Jesus would not offer you a dim, uncertain way of salvation. He says in His abounding love, "I am the way." "I, Jesus,"— who was made flesh and dwelt among men, and knows to the uttermost the poor sinner's need and weariness— the living, loving Savior— "I am the way; commit yourselves to Me, and you are safe for eternity!”
"I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me."
"There is one God, and one
mediator between God and
men, the Man Christ Jesus.”