It was at the close of a summer’s tent meetings that I was saved. I had been anxious all the season but I could not get rid of my burden of sin. I thought that someday I would feel it roll off and that I would be immediately happy. But that never came.
Then a gentleman came and gave some addresses on The Tabernacle, and a model was put on the platform. One night he spoke on the scapegoat, and drew a picture of the scapegoat bearing away the people’s sins into the wilderness (Lev. 16). I saw in that a picture of Jesus bearing my sins far away from God, and from me too, into a place where they would be remembered no more. I had been looking in for relief, now I saw I was to look off unto Jesus. How I did rejoice as we sang at the close of that evening:
All my sins were laid upon Him;
Jesus bore them on the tree;
God who knew them laid them on Him,
And believing, thou art free.
I have been on the way to heaven ever since and I know that His grace will keep me until the eternal glory. It is blessed to be saved, to belong to Christ, to have such a blessed Master to serve, and His people as companions.
“I am a companion of all them that fear Thee, and of them that keep Thy precepts.” Psalm 119:63.
Memory Verse: “BEHOLD, THE LORD’S HAND IS NOT SHORTENED, THAT IT CANNOT SAVE; NEITHER HIS EAR HEAVY, THAT IT CANNOT HEAR.” Isaiah 59:1.
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