What Persuasion?
A visitor said, to a wounded soldier who lay dying in an army hospital, “What church are you a member of?”
“Of the Church of Jesus Christ,” was the reply.
“I mean, of what persuasion are you of?” returned the visitor.
“What persuasion?” asked the dying man, as he looked heavenward, his face beaming with the love of his Savior.” He then continued, “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39).
Of what persuasion are you? It matters not what your religious affiliation or family background might be. It matters not what your social standing is, or your education level.
It matters whether you are of the same persuasion as the dying soldier and the Apostle Paul, who, on another occasion said: “Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men” (2 Corinthians 5:11).
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