WHEN you get home, get a piece of paper, write down your name, and put after it ‘N.S.’ or ‘S.S.’, then you will see where you are going,” so said the preacher as he urged his hearers to a decision for Christ. It seemed a simple thing, so William took paper and ink, wrote down his name, WILLIAM DRIVER; but what next? N.S. stood for “not saved,” and the end of that road was “The Lake of Fire” (Rev. 20:15). S.S. meant “sinner saved,” washed in the blood of the Lamb, and the end was a heaven of bliss.
He thought, and looked over his past life; there had been no conversion, no change, so he rightly concluded that he should add N. S., but, O, terrible thought, where would that find him at last! The text had been,
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” Acts 16:31.
Could he believe this now? Yes. The work was “finished” (John 19:31) when Jesus died. God was satisfied with what the Lord Jesus had done for William, so, satisfied that He raised the Substitute from the tomb. Quietly realizing that Christ was delivered for his offences and raised for his justification (and yours also, dear reader, Rom. 4:25), William Driver, with his heart, believed unto salvation, and now is one of the happiest of Christian workers in a happy band of young men, all “Sinners saved by grace.”
ML 03/27/1927