“How were you led to Christ?” I asked a young Scotchman.
“Well,” he replied, “I was a Sunday school teacher, and for a considerable time I got on well enough teaching historical parts of the Old Testament. But I began to teach from the New Testament, and I found that I was attempting to teach the boys what I did not know myself. I saw that I must first become a Christian myself before I could lead others to Christ. In this way I became interested about my own soul, and in a short time found the Saviour.”
Alas! how many take part in Sunday school and other Christian work who, like this young man, are still strangers to Christ themselves. This is a serious error, and shows plainly that such individuals know not their lost, ruined, helpless condition as sinners. Were that condition known the inconsistency of the position would be realized. How can one care rightly for the souls of others while yet his own soul is unsaved? Our doings can never be acceptable to God while as yet our hearts are alienated from Him.
Love for Christ alone should lead any to engage in the sweet and precious work of the gospel. We well remember the words of an aged Christian to us when we were first entering on the work.
“It is,” he said, “a very blessed work, but a work which calls for much grace, and very much earnest prayer and waiting upon God.”
ML 05/24/1959