ON A STREET in Taiping, Mr. Hudson Taylor, the well-known missionary met an anxious Chinese.
“My name is Dzing,” he said. “The question which distresses me, and to which I can find no answer is, what am Ito do with my sins? Our scholars tell us that there is nothing after death, but I find it hard to believe them. I lie on my bed and think of these things. I sit alone in the daytime and think of them. I think and think, and think again, but I cannot tell what is to be done about my sins. I am seventy-two years of age. I cannot expect to live many years more. I know not what will become of me even tomorrow. Can you tell me what to do with my sins?”
“I can indeed,” Mr. Taylor replied. “It is to answer this very question that we have come to this land. Lien, and I will explain to you what you want to know.”
Hudson Taylor then told him the wonderful story of the cross, how the Lord Jesus Christ there took the place of guilty, lost sinners, and there suffered the punishment that really bonged to us on account of our sins. There God poured out on the Lord Jesus all His wrath against sin. Now —today—God says that if you will simply trust in Jesus as your Saviour, He will never punish you for your sins; Jesus bore it all. All that is left for you to do is to accept God’s wonderful offer. It is free and it is for lost sinners.
Mr. Dzing heard that thrilling news and he accepted God’s offer of salvation. His sins were put away. Now God will never judge him as a sinner.
You can have that same salvation if you will but own yourself a lost sinner and take Jesus as your Saviour.
ML-10/14/1962