I was in a Grain Market, and according to the custom there, after the market is over, the buyer the seller meet together in another room to settle for the purchases of the day. Payment is made in various ways, my habit being to pay by a check on one of the banks.
I had on that day bought a quantity of wheat from a farmer, and on handing him a check for the money—after carefully looking at it in a somewhat suspicious manner, he said,
“But do you think the bank will pay it?”
“O yes,” I said. “It’s all right; they will pay it.”
“But,” said he, “I have no money in the bank.”
“But I have,” I answered; “and you have my signature to the check, and it does not depend upon what you have in the bank, but what I have; and if it is not right, come back again.”
On my word of assurance he departed; though whether he was fully persuaded in his own mind until he had received the money, I cannot tell. At any rate, he never returned.
“Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father, in My name, He will give it you?”
Are we not, like this farmer, anxious to go in our own names to God’s bank to draw from our own funds, forgetting that we have nothing in our own account, instead of going in the precious Name of Jesus in whom “all fullness dwells,” and who has never yet sent a poor seeking sinner away empty.
Man’s banks of gold have often failed, hut God’s resources never fail; for we are “not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ,” “O! the depth of His riches.” We read in Eph. 6:32.
Dear young friend, doubt not nor hesitate any longer, but remember that at once you may have “boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.” Hell, 10:19.
“Why will ye doubting stand,
Why still delay?”
ML 02/20/1938