A LITTLE boy was sick and was supposed to be dying, yet during the whole time, his peaceful state of heart was noticed by those around him, and, at length, through mercy he was restored to health.
Soon after this, his father in speaking to him of his dangerous sickness, said to him: “Charlie! were you not afraid of dying when you were so sick?”
“O, no! not at all.”
“Why, how is that, my son?”
“Because I am a sinner.”
“But how could that give you such peace?”
“Because, father, Christ died for sinners, and I know He died for me, because I am a sinner!”
This is the reason for peace. I know I am entitled to the perfect result of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, because I and a sinner, How opposed this is to the way of thinking that one must be good in order to gain salvation.
Will you not take the lost sinner’s place and claim the lost sinner’s Saviour?
ML-09/01/1935