Martin Luther once had a remarkable dream. He dreamed that Satan approached him with a scroll, broad and long, and closy written, which he proceeded to unroll before the reformer’s eyes, and bade him read therein. Luther did so, and perceived that it contained the record of his sins. In vain he sought to find one sin recorded there of which he had not been guilty; so far from doing so, it rather brought back the recollection of many a long-forgotten one. When he had thoroughly scanned the scroll, he asked of Satan, “Are these all my sins?
“Nay,” replied Satan.
“Then let me,” said Luther, “see, them all.”
Satan departed, and shortly returned with another scroll equally broad and long and again Luther scanned the damning evidence of his guilt. Satisfies at length with the correctness of the record, he again asked of Satan, “And is that all?”
“Yea,” replied Satan, “it is all.”
“Then,” said Luther, “take thy pen, and write in red across the scrolls, ‘The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleasenth me from all sin.’ “
Reader, can you thank God for the blood?
ML 07/12/1959