I was asked one day to go to see a lady who was anxious about her soul. After putting the way to be saved before her as simply as I could, she said to me,
“I do believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, but I am not saved.”
All at once she rose from her seat, and commenced to look under the chairs and tables for something. I said to her,
“I see you have lost something.”
“I have lost my thimble,” replied the lady.
At once I noticed that her thimble was upon her finger, and I said,
“My good friend, your thimble is upon your finger.”
“O,” she said, “how stupid I am to go, about seeking for the thing which I have.”
“Well, my dear friend, that is just what you are doing with salvation. You say that you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, but you are not saved; and God’s Word says,
‘Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.’” John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).
God, by His holy Spirit, gave the anxious one to see that she was in poession of eternal life as a believer on Him.
O, let me ask you, dear children, do you believe on the Son of God? If so, ever lasting life is yours, and yours now. O, claim it, and thank and praise Him who shed His precious blood in order to puhase it for you. The God of all grace bless you with the knowledge of salvation.
O, mercy surprising!
He saved even me!
“Thy portion forever,”
He says, “will I be.”
On His Word I am resting—
Assurance divine.
I’m “hoping” no longer,
I know He is mine.
ML 03/01/1942