During the early 1800s a Christian, wanting to spread the good news of the grace of God, went into the backwoods to preach to the settlers. He met there an elderly woman who had never before heard the story of God’s boundless love. She listened intently as the speaker told her how the Lord Jesus came into this world as a lowly baby and grew up for the entire pleasure and delight of God, always dispensing blessing and healing to all who came, and then was crucified and buried and rose again.
As she listened for the first time to this wonderful story the tears rolled down her wrinkled cheeks. When the speaker had finished, she exclaimed, “Say, mister, when did this happen? Last year, or the year before?”
When she was told it happened nearly two thousand years ago, she replied, “It can’t be true, mister; it can’t be true.” The speaker assured her it was perfectly true, but still puzzled, she said, “Why, if that were true, everybody would love Him!”
This was the effect of the gospel story on one who had never heard it before. You can hardly say you have never heard it before. You may have heard it many times and been touched by it but have put off the consideration of this important matter to a future day. Oh, do not, for your own sake, delay a minute longer! Is it nothing to you that the Lord Jesus, that wonderful, loving Saviour, died for you? “The Son of God . . . loved me, and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:2020I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)). He died that you might live. You have the opportunity now of accepting Him as your Saviour. Tomorrow may be too late!
“God so loved the world,
that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.”