A soldier lay dying in one of the hospitals. A visitor addressed him thus: “What church are you of?” “Of the church of God,” was the answer. “But I mean of what persuasion are you?” “Persuasion!” said the dying soldier, “I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, my Lord” (Rom. 8:38-3938For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38‑39)).
Reader, I ask you to turn from every church, sect, and party, to the blessed Lord Jesus Christ, to His precious blood, to His finished work, to the right “persuasion.” What is that? Why, that the Spirit Of the living God has ransacked creation, and cannot find that which would separate me from the love of God in Christ. “Me!” the saved sinner! “Me!” the richest trophy of divine grace. Are you persuaded of this? Is it so that thy sins have been atoned for, and then forgiven? Are you “persuaded” of the full, present, and eternal forgiveness of sins—of thy sins? If so, cannot you say, “I am persuaded that love’s link will never be snapped; that creation above, beneath, past, present, future, cannot sever the everlasting tie formed between me and the eternal lover of my soul”? Reader, is this your persuasion?