I stood outside a friend's house late one afternoon. Friends were leaving, the hostess was bidding them farewell, and I was alone with my host.
He was a kindly man and very hospitable. I said: "Let's see. Your wife is a Christian, isn't she?"
"Yes," he said, "I am glad to say she is."
"What about you, Charles?"
"Well," he answered, "I don't know what to say. I am sort of 'betwixt and between.' "
"If you have a Christian wife," I said, "you have an advantage. She ought to have a Christian husband, oughtn't she?"
"Yes."
"Look here, you are a sinner, aren't you? If you don't know that you are a sinner, you don't know much! Your sins must all face you in that coming day. If you admit you are a sinner, I can tell you that Christ is a Savior!
"What happened when you were married? You stood before a registrar and you were asked, 'Charles Cooper, wilt thou take this woman, Mary Anderson, to be thy wedded wife," and you said, will!' Then he asked her, Wilt thou take this man, Charles Cooper, to be thy wedded husband?' and she replied, 'I will.'
"Then," I said, "you put the ring upon her finger, signed the register, and you were married!
"Look here, Charles Cooper! Wilt thou take the Lord Jesus Christ to be thy Savior, thy Lord, thy All?"
Charles Cooper answered, "I WILL!"
Friend, have you done that? If so, you can indeed thank God, and say,
"Tis done! the great transaction's done;
I am my Lord's and He is mine."
It is a great day when one signs up to become an apprentice. It is a great day when one marries a Christian; it is a great transaction. But the greatest transaction of any life is when a sinner accepts the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior.
Do not delay. Accept Him now.