Not long ago I met a dear friend of mine. Her greeting was: "I have good news to tell. I am saved!
"It all began on a Sunday afternoon, in a little mission room. I went there merely to pass the time, for the Lord's Day was a burden and a weariness to me. The preacher turned to the seventh chapter of Revelation, and read over and over again a part of the fourteenth verse. "These are they which... have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." Then he read a hymn having these words in it: 'Are you washed in the blood, In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb? Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?'
“Let me ask each one here,' he said, 'are YOU washed in the blood of the Lamb? Do you stand in God's sight pure and white, clothed in the robes of spotless righteousness? Or do you still cling to the old garments, foul and stained with sin? Is it a light thing that the Savior poured out His life-blood to cleanse you, and is now offering you pardon and peace?
“‘Let those,' he continued, 'who really know that they are washed, sing, 'Yes, I am washed in the blood, In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb.'
"I, for one, could not sing those words. My heart condemned me. There I stood convicted of sin. Then I saw my need of cleansing, and I left the"' meeting with my heavy load of guilt. My one wish was to be left alone.
"For days that chorus kept repeating itself in my mind. I felt wretched and undone; I made the too common mistake of looking within for some evidence of good, instead of looking away from miserable self to Christ.
"Some time later at the close of a meeting I attended, the minister asked those who knew they had been cleansed in the blood of the Lamb and were saved to confess it by standing. I felt I must do so; and when I did, joy and peace filled my soul. Now I tell you, for I believe the word, "'If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.'" Rom. 10:99That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (Romans 10:9).
God's day of grace is fast coming to a close. Are you ready? If you are not sheltered under the blood, I tremble for you. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission. The great sacrifice has been made once for all, and now Jesus invites you to Him.