THOUGH I've been a praying woman these twenty years, never knew before that I needed the blood of Christ! None in this town could lay a flaw to my character; but what did that matter as long as I had not Christ?"
Ali, dear woman, you may well ask that weighty question! What, indeed, does it matter, as to the soul's salvation, what one does if the back is turned on Christ?
What a discovery when one finds out that only the precious blood of Christ avails for the sinner, that all else is an empty sham.
"We have eaten and drunk in Thy presence, and Thou hast taught in our streets," (Luke 18:2626And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved? (Luke 18:26)) will be the plea of some in that great day, but the Lord tells us He will .say to these,
I am greatly concerned for many who are closely associated with converted people, and who themselves are often under the sound of the gospel. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters or friends are saved people, but those I speak of are still without God, their sins unforgiven! they are indeed on the broad road to hell.
O, that they realized their great and terrible danger.
If the reader is one of these, if like the good woman whose confession you read, you have never realized that you need the blood of Christ to cleanse your guilty, sin-dyed soul, I pray you wake up to the fact ere it be too late.
Messages of God’s Love 5/27/1934