On the following Monday I was present at some similar meetings in the town of A——and during the supper hour a weather-beaten man came, gripped my hand, and said, “You know I was converted through you.”
“Indeed,” I said, warmly shaking his hand. “And where did you hear me?”
“Oh I never heard you preach, it was through one of your little books, but it is twelve years ago. I was then just a careless godless man. One day when I came in for dinner, I saw my little girl sitting by the fire twisting and about to tear up a little book. My wife at that moment exclaimed, ‘Take that book away from her; do not let her destroy it!’ I took the booklet and read the title, ‘God says I am saved.’ I said to myself, ‘That’s a queer title; I can’t say that,” and forgetting about my dinner, I stood and read the little book through. It was very simple, I thought, so simple only to look to Jesus and be saved; and when I had finished it, I read it through the second time. Then I said to myself, ‘If that’s all a man has to do, why should not I be saved?’
“I read it through a third time, and the light burst into my soul. I saw the truth, just as the dying girl did, of whom it speaks, and like her, I could say, ‘I’m only a poor sinner-Jesus died for me-I believe in Him-God says I am saved, and so I am.”
“Turning to my wife, I said, ‘Where did that book come from?’ ‘Oh,’ she said, ‘some coal was delivered here this morning, and when I untied one of the sacks, there on top was the little book. Was it not wonderful? But I found Jesus then, and I have been rejoicing in Him ever since. Praise His name! Who put the book into the sack? I don’t know, but God spoke to me through it.”
How wondrous are God’s ways and how happy will the person who put that book in the sack be when he or she finds out that it was the means of present and eternal blessing to an immortal soul. This story should cheer and stimulate tract distributors. If we sow the seed, God will bless it.
Be a good servant, by earnest effort, that you may become a son, is a common form of error. Be a son, by God’s grace, that you may become a good servant is the truth!
ML-10/15/1978