Two men met each other a little way out of Philadelphia. One said to the other, “Can you tell me how far it is to Philadelphia?”
The other replied, “If you keep right on it’s about 24,000 miles, but if you turn completely around, you’ll be there in half-an-hour.”
The man was walking away from Philadelphia instead of towards it. Had he continued in that direction, he would have found himself at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. His need was to turn right around. Only by doing this could he reach Philadelphia.
And this is conversion in simple terms—a complete turn-about; from unbelief to faith, from sin to the Saviour, from darkness to light, from the power of Satan unto God. There is no other way to obtain salvation, and one who thinks there is any other way is all wrong.
ML-04/20/1980