A LITTLE girl had strayed from her mother’s side at a meeting. The poor woman, on discovering her loss, went to the preacher and told him about it. The servant of Christ called out the child’s name, “Mary,” from the platform. But no one responded. At the close of the meeting the little one was found sitting in the front seat. On being asked if she had been there during the service, she said that she had.
“Why, then, did you not answer when your name was called?”
“O, I wasn’t lost,” she said, “I thought it was some other Mary.”
There are lots of people like the little girl. “We are all sinners,” they say. But when asked if they are lost sinners, they declare that they are not so bad as that. They may listen to the plainest and most pointed gospel preaching, but they do not appear at all impressed. They read powerful gospel appeals, but they seem quite careless and unconcerned. Why? Because they have not accepted God’s verdict, that they are lost and ruined sinners. The reader may admit that he is a sinner in a general sense, but if he is prepared to add to that, “I am not any worse than others,” it proves that he has never measured himself by God’s measuring line, or weighed himself in God’s balances. You are either lost or saved, travelling to heaven or hell. Which?
Until you learn that you are condemned, and helpless to do anything to save yourself, you will never be saved.
“While there is hope of the sinner being able to do anything, there is no hope of anything being done.” How true! God says you are lost. O! unsaved reader, will you, do you, accept His testimony regarding yourself? If so,
“The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost” Luke 19:1010For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10). He is willing and able to save.
ML 07/17/1927