Some years ago, as I was leaving my home, a woman requested me to visit her mother. As we entered the room, the lady said,
“I know you will tell me the truth; I want to know what I must do to be saved.”
“We will look into the Word of God,” I answered, “for there we shall find a true answer to the question. An account s given there of a man who once asked he same question, ‘What must I do to be saved?’ and if we could find out by what means he was saved, then you could surely rest on that foundation.”
We turned to Acts 16, and read the story of the jailer at Philippi, how he asked this question, and the answer which was given him:
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and Thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
“But must I believe before I feel saved?” my aged friend inquired.
“Yes,” was the answer, “God never speaks in His Word about our feelings as affecting our salvation, for they are not the same for even one day. He says,
After speaking to the woman for a little longer on the importance of trusting simply to the word of God, and not to our thoughts or feelings, I left her, praying that the Lord would bless her soul.
The next time I visited her she put up her hands as I entered the room and said,
“O! I am so happy, for I am trusting in Jesus.”
Dear reader, can you say her Saviour is your Saviour, too? If not, trust Him now. How precious to be able to say.
“It is well with my soul, for I am going to meet the One who died for me.”
ML 10/20/1940