An evangelist visiting an elderly woman asked her whether or not her soul was saved.
“No, that’s just what I want to know,” she replied earnestly.
“How are you going to be saved?”
“That’s just what I want to know,” she repeated.
“Well, let us look then at what God says.
Immediately she brought out her Bible and settled herself to listen.
Her visitor opened his own Bible, and asked her to read the three following verses:
She read them slowly aloud, one after the other, looking at them intently for some minutes. All at once she looked up into her visitor’s face and said, “Well, that is strange! Here I’ve been hoping and struggling and sometimes thinking myself a castaway, and it’s all as plain as that! Well, that is strange. How stupid I have been!”
“Well,” replied he, “that is God’s Word: the words of the Son of God.”
“I know that.”
“And the verses are in your own Bible.”
“Yes, there they are.”
“Have you eternal life then?”
“Well, yes, I must have it; it says so there!”
“What does it say?”
She read the words again and said, “I do believe, and there it is in my own Bible, it’s all plain.”
With a few more remarks, the preacher knelt down before he left and with her praised the Lord for His goodness.
A few days later he found her still rejoicing in the truth she had seen the week before. After speaking for a few minutes of its simplicity, she said, “Here I’d been puzzling over it, my daughter and me, many a time, and nobody to help us. Now it’s all as plain as that. I sat up till midnight after you’d left going over and over those verses. They were so plain—so precious! I can see it all plain now, thank God!”
How is it with you? A free and full salvation is to be enjoyed now by all who repent and believe God’s holy Word. The work of Christ is a finished work. He is the perfect Saviour for everyone who believes.