Reader, if you are unsaved, you are lost. Hoping to be saved is a sad delusion. Have you reached a point in soul and conscience of knowing that you are lost? Have you taken the place of one lost-hence needing a Savior?
If you acknowledged your ruined, lost condition, there is salvation for you. The Savior and salvation are for the lost.
Have you grasped the weighty truth of Scripture as to your condition? From what point did the prodigal commence his journey to his father and home? Why, from this—the discovery that he was lost.
A servant of Christ traveling in the country overtook a fellow traveler. He at once entered into conversation with him about his spiritual condition. The man said: "Sir, do you know who I am? I'm the worst man in my home town.”
"Well," answered the servant of God, "you are most certainly in for it.”
"In for what?" asked the man in some surprise. "In for salvation," was the answer.
Reader, do you know your lost state? Are you willing to be saved? If so, you are "in" for salvation. God offers salvation to the lost and ruined. Will you take it?
Christ Jesus came into the world "to seek and to save that which was lost.”