A blind man, a Christian, had taken his customary station on a busy street corner.
He was reading aloud from his Braille Bible as his sensitive fingers traced the lines. Several passers-by drew near; and a man on his way home from work, led by curiosity, stopped at the edge of the crowd.
Just then the blind man was reading Acts 4:1212Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12), and lost his place. While trying to find it with his finger, he kept repeating the last clause he had read: "None other name, none other name." Some smiled at his embarrassment, but the man at the edge of the crowd walked away deeply musing.
He had lately been under conviction for sin. He had sought in many ways to find peace. Religious exercises, good resolutions, altered habits did not enable him to rejoice in the Lord. Now ringing in his ears were the words repeated by the blind man: "None other name, none other name!”
After he was in bed for the night, the phrase persisted in his mind. "NONE OTHER NAME!" He thought, "What name?” And like music to his burdened soul came the answer: that "name which is above every name: that at the name of JESUS every knee should bow" (Phil. 2:9,109Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; (Philippians 2:9‑10)).
"Ah, Lord, I see it," he said. "I have been trying to find peace through my own works, my reformation, my prayers. JESUS alone can save me. Lord, I receive YOU as my Savior." With this simple confession of faith in the finished work of Christ, his heart was filled with the "peace that passeth understanding.”
How blessed, dear burdened soul, you who are trying in your own way to make peace with God, how very blessed it is just to "let go, and let God!" For "neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:1212Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)).