I SHOULD like to tell you how God brought me to Himself. From, a little child, I was taught to say my prayers morning and evening, but I knew nothing of Jesus, the Saviour of sinners. At times I longed to be good, and, like many others, thought I could make myself fit for heaven. God saw fit to send me a great trial, in taking away by death a dear brother, who was the idol of my heart. My desires after goodness then became greater, but still the Lord Jesus was a stranger to my soul.
About a year after this I took a situation some distance away from my old home. All were strangers to me, but God had led me into a Christian family. I soon saw they were different from what I was, and began to long to be a Christian, and day after day prayed God to make me feel better, and to make me good. I was not then thinking of Christ, the Saviour. Self-improvement was my thought. O, how I missed the road!
One night, when sitting up rather late, I took up a little book, which had been given to me several years before, and began to read until I came to these words:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).
O, how plain all seemed to me! I just saw that I had nothing to do: Jesus had done it all. He had paid my debt upon the cross, and, believing on Him, I was saved.
It is now over six years since God gave me peace through the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son. Every day proves that Jesus Christ is “the same yesterday, today, and forever.” A peace now that no one can take from me—a blessed assurance that I belong to Christ—belongs to me. Jesus is mine, and I am His.
Now, dear friend, if you have not yet begun to trust the Lord Jesus, will you not begin now? He is waiting to receive you; He will send none away that come to Him. Come, then, now, just as you are, and, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” Isa. 1:1818Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18).
ML 03/19/1922