It was in a stable that a young fanner came to Christ. Long he had been in anxiety of soul, for he knew he was not right with God.
"Not right with God." Yet he was religious. In his attendance at church he was most regular, not only on Sundays but at the weeknight prayer meeting. Never was he absent.
"Not right with God," for he knew that he was a sinner, unforgiven.
It was a preacher who had himself been recently converted whose ministry finally led to his conversion. He told how he himself had received the blessing of salvation. No sermon did he preach that Sunday evening, but gave a simple account of his journey from death to life and from the power of Satan unto God.
Stirred to the depths of his being, the young farmer returned to his home. He was alarmed at his lost condition. He realized as never before his unfitness to meet a holy God; but no one as yet had told him of the simplicity of God's way of salvation.
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”
The next morning he remembered another fanner in the neighborhood, one who was converted. He thought: "If that man can be so blessed, there is surely salvation for me.”
Leaving his work in the stable he went into a stall. Falling on his knees on the straw, he repeated the well-known verse:
"Just as I am without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come.”
This was his prayer. He felt he could not utter anything else. With these words on his lips he came just as he was to Christ.
In his heart he knew that the Lord Jesus had received him.
At once the light of life filled his soul and he cried, "I am saved!”
Reader, are you saved? You cannot come to Christ a day too soon. Come now, I beg of you, just as you are.