A short time ago a young Jewish girl attended a gospel meeting with a companion from school. As the message was given out, her heart was touched with the story of the redeeming love of Christ. Someone spoke to her at the close, and found her deeply convicted. She was pressed to decide for Christ at once, and seemed at the point of decision, when she suddenly exclaimed: “Oh, I can’t do it! It would cost too much! I would lose all my friends, and my family would disown me!”
“We can understand that,” replied the Jewish believer who had spoken to her, in a sympathetic tone. “There would be a price to pay, of course. But have you counted the cost if your soul should be lost?”
I wish I could tell you that she had since decided for Christ, but I do not know. I do know that the Bible says, “How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?” Hebrews 2:33How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; (Hebrews 2:3). It is a tremendously serious thing to trifle with God, and when He offers us salvation, we are very responsible. At great cost to Himself He has provided it for you and me, and it is a terrible thing to put anything before Christ. This young girl did not fully realize, I am sure, that her soul is worth more than the whole world. It would cost her much to accept Christ, no doubt much more than some of us who have Christian parents — but to lose everything that life holds dear would be better, far better, than to spend eternity in hell.
Dear reader, how is it with you? If you continue to reject God’s great salvation, judgment is ahead of you. God cannot have sin in heaven, but in His marvelous love He sent His Son, who settled the question of sin at the cross, so that He might offer a full and free pardon to you and me. As a risen living Saviour the Lord Jesus speaks from heaven, pleading with you to be saved before it is forever too late.
“There’s a line that is crossed by rejecting the Lord,
Where the call of His Spirit is lost;
And you hurry along, with the pleasure-mad throng—
Have you counted, have you counted, the cost?”
ML 11/11/1956