How Lina Was Converted

From: Messages of God's Love: 1939

I was brought to the Lord when a girl of ten years old. It happened in this way. I was passing along the street one evening on my way home from my music lesson, when I saw a circle of people standing around a man who was preaching. Curiosity led me to go up and hear what he was saying-. Just as I got up to the place, I heard the words,

“How wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?” Jeremiah 12:5⁵If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? (Jeremiah 12:5).

“If death should overtake you tonight as you are, how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?” said the speaker with great earnestness.

I walked away, but that question followed me. I could not forget it. All that night it came up again and again.

There was a girl in my class, whom I had heard spoken of as “saved.” I thought I would tell her what had occupied my thoughts. I watched an opportunity, and one day I met her outside the playground, and did so. She put her arm in mine, and told me how she had been in the same way herself, and how the Lord saved and made her happy. It was all new to me, I had never heard of any one being saved and sure of heaven bore. I accepted Mary’s Saviour as mine, I believed He died for me, and I was saved.

“Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and He was buried, and He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.” 1 Corinthians 15:3,4³For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; ⁴And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: (1 Corinthians 15:3‑4).

ML 04/02/1939

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