Some years ago a postman got a letter to deliver bearing the peculiar address: “To any sinner in H—.” He tried the postmaster, his fellow-postmen, then took it from door to door on his rounds, causing many peculiar comments. Not one person in all his travels would own that they could be rightly addressed as “sinner,” and as the postman himself disliked the title, and the letter contained no address of sender, it was sent to the dead-letter office.
Had you lived in that place would you have said,
“I’ll take the letter, as I am a sinner in the sight of a Holy God, for ‘all have sinned’ (Romans 3:2323For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23)), but as I have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ I am a ‘sinner saved by grace.’”
Do you say that here and now? Remember, all who do not acknowledge their sinner-ship will land in God’s “dead-letter office.” Are you a lost sinner, or are you saved? One or the other you are now, and will be in eternity. Which? Where will you spend it, in heaven or in hell?
ML 09/13/1931