SUCK were the words of one who has just been called to her rest after suffering for several years. I wonder, if the Lord were to call you away, dear reader, could you say "I know it's all right"? If not, why? The one who uttered these words had believed God's testimony of One who came from the highest heights of glory down "to Calvary's depths of woe" to save poor, lost and ruined sinners by bearing on the cross the righteous judgment of a holy God against sin. She knew that God had laid on Jesus "the iniquity of us all, and that God was so perfectly satisfied with the work of His beloved Son that He raised Him from the dead for our justification. Jesus Himself had declared that "He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come unto judgment, but is passed from death into life." Therefore it was, when on account of her severe illness the doctor had to give her morphia to cause sleep, that she was able to say on waking up, "I was quite aware that I might not awake again here, but I knew it was all right." She had taken God at His word, fully casting herself upon Him. Like the apostle Paul, she would say, "I know whom I have believed.”
The writer can remember the time when it was different with her. A few years ago, her dear husband had to undergo a severe operation; and it was While one was reading the precious word of God to him that she would quietly creep into the room to listen to the words which seemed so wonderful to her. From that time she has never missed attending a little meeting round God's word every week when possible. And doing this she was like the wise man that Jesus speaks of who built a house and dug deep, laying the foundation on a rock, God's written and living word. So when the storm came she was not shaken, but could say, "I know it's all right.”
What comforting words for those she has left behind! Truly they sorrow not as those which have no hope. How little we all thought when we met at the Bible reading only one short month ago that it would be the last time we should meet on earth! She was then telling us of one who had been saying she was longing to meet her mother, and she had replied, "Oh, I think it should be Jesus we should long to meet, because your mother would never have been there if it had not been for Jesus." Dear reader, have you learned this important truth that "Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures," and that His precious blood shed on Calvary's cross has so satisfied a holy God as to sin, and our sins, that God is now acting righteously in justifying the one who believes in Jesus. "We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins." "And by him all that believe are justified." Thus can God look upon the believer in Christ Jesus as accepted and complete in Him. If this is so with you, you will be able, like our dear sister, to say, "I know it's all right.”
G. H.