DOCTOR and his Christian friend were driving along the highway. They were discussing different things and after a while the subject of life after death came up.
The Christian had often talked to the doctor about the need of salvation and urged him to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour. But the doctor had no time for God and he always put his friend off. "I am surprised," he said reproachfully, "that a man of your intelligence could believe as you do."
After some silence, as the miles slipped by, the Christian turned to his friend and said: "Suppose you had T.B. and someone recommended a drug for it. You took the drug and recovered completely.
"Ever since then you prescribed that drug for T.B. in your practice and it never failed to cure the patient. What would you think then of a man who was dying of T.B. but who refused to take your remedy?"
"I'd say he was a fool," replied the doctor.
"Well," his friend went on, "years ago I was a lost sinner with no hope of recovery. I was dying in my sin. But someone told me of a remedy. I took that remedy, and it made a new man of me.
"I have told others about it. Whenever they have accepted it, they too have been changed. I've never known it to fail. I have seen it make drunken men sober and give up the drink habit, I have seen crooks become honest men, it has made men who cursed and used bad language pure in their speech, and proud men humble. Young and old, rich and poor, have been healed of the disease of sin when they have trusted the Lord Jesus as their Saviour."
Suddenly the doctor saw what he had been blind to for so long. "I've been the fool!" he exclaimed.
A little later they stopped to rest. It didn't take his friend long to show him from the Bible that he too could trust the great Physician, the Lord Jesus, to cure him of his sin.
"Come 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." Isa. 1:18.
Messages of the Love of God 6/8/1975