I'll Take Everything That's Given Me?

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It was a bright morning. Everyone seemed to be in a good humor. The conductor of the electric car was a bright happy soul, and people were glad to ride with him.
As a certain passenger paid his fare, he gave the conductor a small parcel. A rider remarked to the conductor, "Good things seem to be coming your way." The reply was, "I'll Take Anything That's Given Me”
"How about salvation, which God offers freely to all who will accept it?" the passenger inquired.
"Thank God! I have that also!" was the happy reply of the conductor.
Have You?
Most people are looking for all they can get in this world. They will accept pleasures, riches, honors, or anything which will add to their enjoyment here.
But when it comes to accepting from God true riches, pleasures for evermore, a place with Christ in the glory, they are not so ready to "take anything that is given.”
Salvation, forgiveness of sins, eternal life and everlasting inheritance in glory are freely offered by God to every needy sinner.
Yet how few there are who are willing to accept these priceless blessings from God!
How freely God, in His Word, offers His gifts to every believing sinner!
"The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Rom. 6:2323For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23).
"Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." Rom. 3:2424Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (Romans 3:24).
"For by grace are you saved through. faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God." Eph. 2:88For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (Ephesians 2:8).
No matter what your past life has been, if you will but bow to God in confession of sins and true repentance, and put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, all these blessings and many more are God's free gift to you.
Why are you not saved? The Lord Jesus answers, "Ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life." John 5:4040And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. (John 5:40).
If you go into eternity unsaved, not justified, without eternal life, without God, without Christ, without hope: if you go into eternity to spend its unending years in hopeless misery in hell, you go there because you loved your sins; because you were indifferent to God's invitations; because you despised and refused His free gifts.
And if you do, you have no right to blame your eternal torment on God!
"He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).