IN these easygoing days of indifferentism—days marked by form without power, and routine without reality—it is blessed to see a soul downright in earnest to be saved; and such an one it was my privilege to see and talk with a few days since, he told me he was roost anxious to be saved; that he had been harassed by Satan and by doubts for some weeks that he was trying hard, but at present he could not say his feet were firmly planted on the rock Christ Jesus.
He confessed what a sinner lie had been, and that his sins troubled him. Seeing he was a truly repentant soul, I took out my pocket Bible and read from Exodus 12:1313And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. (Exodus 12:13), “The BLOOD shall be to you for a TOKEN... WHERE YE ARE; and when I see the BLOOD, I will pass over you.” I pressed upon him that the blood of the Lamb and the word of God, and nothing else, was what God put before him for salvation; and that his faith must be in the word of God, about the blood of the Lamb, which cleanseth from all sin. (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).) I then read from John 3:3333He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. (John 3:33), “He that hath received His testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.”
I explained to him that Christ on the cross had paid our debts, who believe in Him, to God with His own most precious blood; that God, being perfectly satisfied, yea, glorified, with what Christ had done, had raised Him from the dead, and in that act had, as it were, receipted the bill; and that now Christ was in the glory of God as the paid and receipted bill in a safe place.
The dear man pushed down the bedclothes, stretched his arm out of bed, and, holding out his right forefinger as if pressing it upon a seal, exclaimed most earnestly, with tears flowing down his face, “I credit it all! I CREDIT IT ALL! Bless God I am free; I am delivered. My soul is saved. I am ready to go. Jesus has done it all, and He is in heaven waiting to welcome me. I credit it all!”
At this point his wife came into the room, when, taking her hand, he exclaimed, “I am free from my burden, and I wish you were as free as I am. Oh, don’t rest until you have the love of God shed abroad in your heart as I have I until you are ready to go as I am. I am quite ready to go now; Jesus has made me ready. He has done it all, You have not to look this way or that way, but only to Jesus. I credit it all.”
I have seen this dear man several times since, and found him each time calmly looking to Jesus only, with simple faith in God’s word about the person and work of Christ, and full of “all joy and peace in believing.” (Rom. 15:1313Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. (Romans 15:13).)
And now can you who are reading these few lines say, “I credit it all”? Do you credit or believe what God says about you as a death-deserving, hell-deserving, lake-of-fire-deserving, eternal-judgment deserving sinner? Do you credit all God says by His Spirit in His word about the peerless person and precious blood of His own dear Son? Do you, in short, accept God’s “token where ye are”? And can you from your heart say, with him about whom I have been writing, “I CREDIT IT ALL”?