A QUESTION often asked when a sinner is urged to come to Christ is, “How do I come to Him?”
Many years ago a Christian worker, Mr. Stone, made it a practice to speak to at least one person each day about the Lord Jesus, the Saviour of sinners. One evening, as he was thinking about going to bed, he realized that on that day he had not spoken to anyone about Jesus. He looked at the clock and saw it was half-past nine. Was it too late? No, it was not.
Out into the dark the gospel worker went, and passing up a quiet street, he saw a man coming toward him.
“Is this the one the Lord wants me to speak to?” he asked himself.
Mr. Stone saw that he was an elderly man and he greeted him with a comment upon what a fine evening it was. They talked together a little and then Mr. Stone asked, “Sir, have you ever thought of coming to Jesus?”
“Well,” replied the man, “this is strange. I have thought many times of coming to Jesus, but I do not know how to come. Tell me, how do you come to Jesus?”
Quickly and silently Mr. Stone asked God for guidance. At once the thought flashed into his mind to take him back to boyhood days.
“Well,” said Mr. Stone, “you remember when you were a little boy.” The old man brightened as his thoughts turned back 60 or 70 years.
“How did you take your first step? You were too young to remember that but probably your mother placed you against a chair, stood off a little, held out her arms, and said, ‘Come, come to mother, come along, take a step.’ She didn’t pull you; she didn’t push the chair away. She waited; she coaxed. You ventured out, you took that first step, and in a moment you were in your mother’s arms.”
“Yes,” said the old man, “that is how I took the first step, I am sure.”
“Then,” said Mr. Stone, “as a guilty sinner in the sight of God, will you here and now take the step, come to the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved? Will you come?”
The old man bowed his head, yielded his heart to the Lord, and then and there was saved with an everlasting salvation.
“Just as I am, without one plea
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come.”
ML-10/28/1962