I came to God as a lost, guilty sinner, and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my own personal Saviour, as I was on my way home from school. I had always to pass the church going and coming from school, so this day as I was passing, I saw the church door open, and I looked in to see who was there, and it was my chum, Willie Hodge. Willie had taken the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour a few weeks before this, and seemed very happy, so turning to me he asked me this question,
“Harold, if you were to die now where would you go?”
“Down to hell,” I said, for I knew that I was a sinner, and had to be saved before I could say I’d go to heaven; for I had read in the Bible that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23) and my Sunday school teacher told me that Jesus said,
“If ye die in your sins, whither I am ye cannot come.”
Willie took his Testament, and turned to John 3:16, and read,
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life,’’ then he read Romans 10:9.
“If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
“Harold, do you believe with all your heart?”
“Yes, Willie, I do.”
“Then God says you’re saved,” so I took God at His word, for I believed with all my heart, and God’s Word says, “Thou shalt be saved; so I was saved then and there, by taking the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour, and I’m saved now, and will be forever. So, dear boys and girls, I hope you will accept the Lord Jesus as your Saviour, and be able to say,
“I love Him because He first loved me.” 1 John 4:19.
ML 02/06/1938