|
He Just Came
One night a preacher said to an old man who had come several times to the gospel meetings, “Isn’t it time you turned to Christ for salvation?”
“I did tonight,” he replied. “I’m saved now.”
He then asked him how he knew this; was it because he had determined to give up his sinful habits and live a decent life?
He said, “No, it was while you were preaching I thought I saw God holding out His hand to me and saying, ‘I will receive you just as you are,’ And I just came.”
The old man came to God who is stretching out His hands to all, young and old, all day long. The Bible tells us, “God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time” (1 Timothy 2:3-6).
|
