An anxious, sin-burdened woman came to the home of a well known preacher of the gospel one day to ask counsel and guidance regarding her spiritual state. "I have prayed and read my Bible; I have gone to church and taken the sacrament. Yet I do not seem to be any nearer being saved than before I began. Do tell me, Sir, what shall I do to obtain salvation?”
Quietly the man of God replied, "Nothing.”
The woman was at first astonished, then disappointed, at the strange answer. She sat in silence for a few moments unable to speak, for she thought all hope was now gone for her.
The Lord's servant, seeing her hopeless look said: "Jesus did it all. And God is so well pleased with what He did that He sends you a title to eternal glory, for nothing.”
"It seems far too cheap, Sir," said the woman.
"It cost God His Son, and Christ His blood," was the preacher's reply.
That word was the means of showing the anxious woman how God's salvation is so easily obtained.