Gerty had been converted for some months, and was rejoicing in the knowledge of sins forgiven. Meeting her younger brother Ted near the house one day she launched forth, out of a full heart, the Old, Old Story of a Saviour’s love, and wound up with a very plain and pointed appeal to accept of the Lord Jesus there and then.
Ted, who had noticed a change in Gerty, and wished at times he had her happiness, was really stirred, but, boy-like, declared “he could not keep it.”
“It!” cried Gerty, “it’s not ‘it,’ it’s ‘Him.’ Jesus not only saves, but keeps. He is able to ‘save.’ He is able to ‘keep’” (Hebrews 7:2525Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. (Hebrews 7:25); Jude 2424Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, (Jude 24)). Then pointedly she asked, “Ted, here and now, will you take Jesus as your own Saviour and be happy?” Thinking more of the Saviour than of the future, Ted answered quietly, but with purpose.
“I will.” His “I will” was confirmed by the Saviour’s,
“Him that cometh to ME I will in no wise cast out” John 6: 37. Will you also “come” and say to the Lord Jesus Christ,
“I will trust and not be afraid? Isaiah 12: 2.
He loved you, He died for you, come as you are, and you will be saved.
ML 10/18/1931