HOW sweet, reader, is the name and title that Jesus bears, — a Saviour! How well it suits us as lost sinners? It is of all importance that we should know the truth, and accept the truth about ourselves, that we are really lost sinners before God.
We cannot be patched up by any religious process so as to be fitted for the presence of God. Our case is desperate, and nothing less than a Saviour will meet it; our hoping to go to heaven, unless we are saved, is a delusion.
We came in contact some time ago with a young woman who talked very nicely about going to heaven, but having some doubts about her condition, we asked her, how long she had been saved? She replied, she could not say she was saved, “but she had been brought up to it.” We fear she represents a large class, and we would say in all love and faithfulness that this being “brought up to it” is a delusion of the devil.
Of course, one may be saved, while young, — thank God, many are; but whether young or old, be assured of this, dear reader, that it is only a personal, living Saviour that can fit you for God’s presence.
Now, God in His love has provided this Saviour. Jesus “appeared once to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.” He has “suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.”
“This Jesus hath God raised up and exalted Him with His right hand a Prince and a Saviour.” “He is able,” the Scripture says, “to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by Him,” and we can assure the reader that He is not only able, but that He delights to save needy, lost sinners; and the Scripture further says, “Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved,” but the name of Jesus.
Oh, weary sinner, listen to His tender loving words, “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
W. H.