Profession or Possession?

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HOW often, alas, Satan succeeds too well in rocking his dupes to sleep in the cradle of religious profession, to the lullaby of “Peace, peace, when there is no peace!”
I was much struck in passing through a Warwickshire churchyard, to read the following epitaph on the tombstone of a young lady who had died at the early age of nineteen, ―
“In the observance of her religious duties
She was regular and exact,
Without ostentation or bigotry.
In her person she was lovely,
In her manners and deportment
Modest and unassuming.
She was dutiful to her parents, affectionate to her friends,
Grateful to her benefactors,
Mild and benevolent to all whom she approached.
And as she lived beloved,
So she died lamented by all who knew her.”
Such was the inscription. I know not how she had lived; but if without Christ, she died without Christ, and must spend eternity without Christ in that place of “outer darkness” with the lost. A person may possess all the above qualities and yet be Christless.
Reader! what are you trusting in? Your works, or Christ’s work? We do not say you are irreligious or profane; but if only a professor, you are LOST. God’s Word declares “that ALL have sinned, and come short of his glory” (Rom. 3:2323For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23)). All alike need to prove the cleansing value of “the precious blood of Christ.” Have you ever owned yourself a lost sinner, and trusted the, precious blood of God’s dear Son?
Good works, almsgiving, deeds of benevolence, will not save you. “By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified” (Rom. 3:2020Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (Romans 3:20)). For “without shedding of blood is no remission”