LILLY had been anxious about her soul for a long, long time. Sometimes she felt happy, thinking she was saved; at other times her mind was full of doubts and fears.
She often thought to herself,
“I do not feel like a Christian; I often do not act or talk like one; so perhaps I’m not one after all.”
What was the trouble with little Lilly? She was looking at her own poor, changeable feelings instead of at Jesus, who said “Come unto Me ... ..and I will give you rest.”
One day a Christian gentleman came to visit in Lilly’s home. She decided to keep out of his way for fear he would talk to her, and ask if she were a Christian; and she would not know how to reply.
“How strange of him just to give me a verse like that,” thought Lilly; and away she hurried to read it.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
Lilly had heard the words of Jesus, and believed Him to be the sent One of God to put away her sins. She saw them all laid on Jesus, and said she, “I have everlasting life, because God says so.” She just knelt down and thanked God and then all her doubts fled, and she rejoiced. She can always say now “I know that I am a Christian, for I have passed from death unto life. I could not save myself. My feelings could not save me; but Jesus is my Saviour.”
ML 06/16/1918