Ray went back to get the cows, as he had done many another evening on the farm. But today there was something special on his mind. Many a time he had heard other people say that they were saved and knew it. He had often heard, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt he saved,” but somehow it seemed to mean everyone else hut Ray. He just couldn’t say that he was saved.
He walked past the old zig-zag snake fence on his father’s farm without his customary whistle. He just couldn’t whistle, because he didn’t know that he was saved. Then he stopped, slipped into a fence corner clear of bushes, and knelt down to tell the Lord just how he felt. He did so want to know that he was saved.
The cows came home as usual and the evening chores were done. Then his father hitched up the horse to the old-fashioned buggy and drove his family to a farm home where a gospel meeting was to be held that evening.
Ray had prayed, and now he was watching for the answer. A godly old man stood up and read 1 John 5:1313These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. (1 John 5:13). “These things I have written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life.”
“That ye may know.” The doubts all fled from. Ray’s mind like clouds before sunlight. That was a long time ago, hut the fears have never come back. He will tell you with a happy smile any day you wish to ask him, that he knows that he has eternal life, because he believes on the name of the Son of God, who loved him, and gave Himself for him.
Reader, do you know that you have eternal life? There is joy unspeakable in knowing Him, our precious Saviour, whom to know is life eternal. Do not live in doubt any longer. God wants you to know.
ML 09/10/1950