“YES, sir, I have had one or two certificates for Scripture,” said a boy to me the other day, in answer to my question as to whether he knew the Saviour.
Perhaps my reader is like him, thinking it is all right, because he has taken the Scripture prize at Sunday school, or obtained a few certificates. But these will not do for God. He says there is none other name for salvation but Jesus, and it is His name, through faith in His name alone, can save your soul.
Can you say, like the apostle Paul, when speaking of the Lord, “He loved me and gave Himself for me”? If not, with all your religious knowledge, certificates, and prizes you are lost. Christ is coming quickly. Look away to the Lord Jesus on the cross as the Saviour. His precious blood can cleanse you from all sin, and then you will be able to say, “He loved me, and gave Himself for me.” (Gal. 2:2020I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20).)
ML 05/12/1918