Before Mr. Albert left the hospital that day he asked, “Have I visited all the patients?”
“Yes,” was the reply, “at least, all but one.”
“What do you mean, all but one?” asked Mr. Albert.
“There is one lady who is not worth visiting.”
“Why not?” asked Mr. Albert.
“She doesn’t believe that there is anything wrong with her. She won’t pay any attention to us or to the remedy we offer for her leprosy. There’s no use in going to see her.”
But Mr. Albert asked to see her anyway. He walked in and spoke to the lady. There was no response. She didn’t even look up from the book she was reading.
“Could I read to you?” asked Mr. Albert.
Again there was only silence. The lady did not act as though she even knew that he was in the room. Mr. Albert read out loud from the Bible anyway, and then he knelt down and prayed.
“Good-bye,” Mr. Albert said.
Still, she never said anything nor even looked at him.
Mr. Albert left a little sad, but he knew that he had met other people whose attitude toward their sinful condition was just as foolish. Even many boys and girls don’t believe that they have sinned or need a Saviour, just as that lady didn’t believe that she was sick or needed medicine. We hope you will not be like this lady. Your own memory will tell you that the Bible is true when it tells you that you are a sinner. “For there is no man that sinneth not.” 1 Kings 8:4646If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; (1 Kings 8:46).
I hope you will be like Mr. Albert who knew that he was a sinner and came to the Saviour, the Lord Jesus, to have all his sins washed away.
Christ is the Saviour of sinners
Christ is the Saviour for me;
Long I was chained in sin’s darkness,
Now by His grace I am free.
Saviour of sinners,
Saviour of sinners like me,
Shedding His blood for my ransom,
This is the Saviour for me!
ML-09/19/1993