Old farmer Giles was converted at a gospel tent meeting in his village. But when he got home again, Satan came and whispered to him that he was not saved at all — he couldn’t really be saved. So down the old farmer got on his knees and asked the Lord Jesus to give him back the assurance of his salvation.
This went on for some time — one day the old farmer would feel sure he was saved, but the next Satan had him in doubt about it. At last he got tired of Satan’s wiles.
“I’ll take the Lord at His word, and just believe I’m saved,” he cried. Then going out into a field, he knelt down right out there under the blue sky and asked the Lord Jesus to give him the assurance of his salvation once more.
When he got up from his knees, he went and fetched a post; then, taking a hammer, he drove the post firmly into the ground. After that, whenever Satan came and whispered to him that perhaps he was not really saved at all, he would go out into the field and pointing to the post planted there, he would say triumphantly: “There, devil, that proves I’m saved! The Lord Jesus Christ sent me the message, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.’ Yes, and I believed and asked him to give me the sense of my salvation at the spot where that post is stuck into the ground, and He did it!”
ML-12/12/1976