IT WAS just four years ago that a young Christian who worked in our office came in to ask for time off to go to a funeral. He then told me about the young man whose feral he was going to attend.
John was 26 years of age and had been a “church-goer” all his life. While he was swimming during his vacation he felt a very sharp pain in his chest which continued to trouble him until he returned home, so he visited his doctor.
The doctor soon had John in the hospital for a check-up and made the sad discovery that he had cancer. The doctor told John’s wife and his parents that he would have only six months to live. It was decided that John should be told how serious a condition was and that of course Iva a great shock to him.
One day not long after, when his father visited him, John said: “Dad, I’ve put up a good front for a long time and have passed myself off as a Christian, but I’m not saved.”
Are you like John, just a “make-believe” Christian? If so, I hope you will wake up and turn to the Lord for salvation.
Although John had heard the gospel many times his father told him again the old, old story of Jesus and His love. John was in earnest, for six months is not very long to live. It was not long until his sins were cleansed away by the precious blood of Jesus. By faith he trusted God’s Word: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved,” Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31), and he was saved.
John didn’t live for six months, he lived only six weeks and then went to be with the Lord Jesus who died for him.
ML-08/05/1962