How God Saved a Gambler

Walter is a neighbor of ours, and he loves to sing about the Lord Jesus and seeks to point others to the Saviour.
One night Walter told us how the Lord Jesus saved him two years ago. He said that he was brought up in a Christian home and knew he should be saved, but just kept putting it off.
Waller grew older and married and had a little family, He became a gambler and spent his hard-earned wages in wicked gambling halls. No doubt his young wife and children often lacked proper food and clothing. For many years he went on in sin—always putting off the salvation of his precious, never-dying soul.
One night a friend invited him to attend a gospel meeting, and as he sat at home thinking about the meeting, he said he seemed to hear a voice compelling him to go. The solemn thought flashed through his mind—"This may be the very last opportunity I ever have to be saved!" He jumped up and took one of his little sons by the hand and both hurried out to the gospel meeting.
That night. Walter accepted the Lord as his own precious Saviour and returned home a happy num—a new creature in Christ Jesus! What a difference this made to his family, and not long after, his wife and older children confessed the Lord Jesus as their own Saviour. Walter no longer went to the gambling halls, but. sought out Christian friends.
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new," 2 Corinthians 5:1717Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Walter goes about his work now singing hymns of praise to God, and at work he reads the Word of God to a group of workers during his lunch hour.
Dear boys and girls, if you ever met Walter would plead with you to come to the Lord Jesus while you are young, and if you do so, you will be so happy, and also be spared a life of sin and shame.
"'Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them." Ecclesiastes 12:11Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; (Ecclesiastes 12:1).
"Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near." Isaiah 55:66Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: (Isaiah 55:6).
Messages of the Love of God 6/29/1952