A MAN was telling a fellow-traveler in a tram. car how he had been working in the Cleveland ironstone mines with an infidel, who was always holding forth his views—his chief point being that there is no God! He said:
“One day, however, some lumps of ironstone from the top fell on him, hurting him badly, and then the first words I heard were, ‘Oh! God have mercy on me.’
“‘Why, I thought you said there was no God?’ I said to him when I had got him out.”
“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God” (Ps. 14:1), but Scripture never says, the fool believes in his heart there is no God!
No, whatever a man may say to the contrary, in the depths of his heart he knows there is God, and that He is the God “with whom we have to do.” He has but to be brought face to face with death to be made to acknowledge Him.
The solemn testimony of Scripture is, “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Heb. 9:2727And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27)).
But, thank God, it does not stop there, for the next verse says, “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”
Will you not trust the Lord Jesus, who has revealed God as Saviour? To do so means eternal blessing. Do it now.
F. A.