"Someone told me in the night that I am a sinner, who was it, was it God, or was it Satan?" This was the question asked of me as I entered a sick room to visit a lone woman who had sent for me.
"It was God who told you," I said.
"God," she said, "I don't know Him, I have been calling Him my Father all my life and He was not. O, I am a wretch, nobody loves me."
"Yes, God loves poor sinners and gave His Son to die for them."
"But I have been deceiving you and myself," she said. "I told you I was saved and I was not. How could you think I was, I was not like you, I did not care whether you spoke to me or not about these things? Was there not something you could tell, by?"
I then told her I had not seen in her what I had wanted to and added,
"But you told me you were saved and I could not say you were not."
"I thought I was not a child of the devil, so that I must be a child of God. God be merciful to me a sinner. May I say 'God,' shall I offend Him?"
"No, God loves you and gave Jesus to die for you."
"I don't know Him," she said again.
I again told her of the love of God and left her for a little while, giving her a small book called
"Peace with God."
On going to her after a short absence I could see a little light was entering her poor troubled soul, and I then repeated to her,
It seemed as if she had never heard it before, although I had often quoted it to her. After a little more conversation I left her again.
A few hours passed and then a change had taken place. Peace with God was on her face, and these blessed words came out,
"My Jesus, my blessed Jesus, He has been with me. He has been talking to me, and I have been talking to Him, my Jesus, my blessed Jesus."
All who went to see her saw that whereas she had been in misery as a sinner, she was now filled by the grace of God with joy and peace. She said,
"I am saved by grace and He saved me."
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name (but the Lord Jesus Christ) under heaven among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:1212Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12).