While driving through a beautiful country district in Canada I became very thirsty. I stopped at a farmhouse and asked for a drink of water. The farmer's wife kindly supplied me, and thanking her I said: "Did you ever hear of the Man who gives living water?”
"Oh, do come in," she said; "my husband is very poorly, and he was just wishing someone would come in and talk to him about his soul. He is very troubled about being sure of heaven.”
I went in and found a man about sixty years old. He was reading the Bible. After some conversation I asked him, "Do you know you are, saved?”
He answered earnestly: "I do hope I am saved! I pray to God, and I know Christ died for me; and I do hope I am saved.”
"Do you believe on the Son?" I asked.
"Oh, I do, I do, with all my heart. I do believe He died for me.”
"Well, then, you must have everlasting life." "Oh, sir, I would not dare to say that; I am not good enough for that. But I do hope I shall be saved." "But you told me you believed God's Word," I said.
"I do," he said; "I believe every word of it.”
"But don't you see God's Word says if you believe on the Son you have everlasting life? Do you think God would lie to us?”
“Oh, I wouldn't dare to say that. That would be awful.”
"You say you believe on the Son, and God says you have everlasting life. Does God tell the truth?”
He paused for a moment. Soon the light dawned on him. "Oh, I see it plainly now. I believe on the Son, and God says I have everlasting life. I must know it, not because I feel it, but because God says it." And then he cried out: "Thank God, I am saved! I am saved! God says it, and it' must be true.”
God said it;
Christ did it;
I believe it;
That settles it.