NO ONE thought that the careless boy would later go to China to tell others how to be saved. For from the age of 11 when Hudson was at school, he grew more and more careless of his own need of being saved. He seemed to want fun and money more than God’s salvation.
Often he had tried to make Himself a Christian, and failed of course. Then he began to think he never could be saved, and thought he might as well enjoy as much of the world as he could, so there was no hope for him beyond the grave.
When 15, young Hudson met some men who claimed that the Bible was not true. He quickly accepted their infidel reasonings, only too thankful for some hope of escape from the doom which, if the Bible were true, awaited the ungodly. Hudson was smart in school, but he was stupid to think he could escape hell by pretending it were not real.
However, Hudson’s mother and sister were praying earnestly for his salvation, and God answers prayer.
One afternoon he was alone and picked up a little book which he read. It made his sinful and dangerous state very real to him. If he died that afternoon, he knew he would be in hell. He read on until he noticed the words, “The finished work of Christ.” He thought about the Lord Jesus on the cross saying, just before He died, “It is finished!”
“What was finished?” Hudson asked himself. He understood then that the Lord Jesus had paid his debt of sin when He died, and God does not ask anything more.
What was there left for him to do? The answer was, “There was nothing left to be done, but to accept this Saviour and His salvation, and praise Him forevermore.”
Before Hudson had finished reading the little book, he was saved... a sinner saved by grace.
“It is finished!” yes, indeed,
Finished every jot.
Sinner, this is all you need,
Tell me, is it not?
ML-07/18/1976