Are you being raised in a Christian home? It is a great blessing. Your parents read you Bible stories. The wonderful stories of the Old Testament of Joseph, Samson, and David and Goliath are just a few of these true stories.
Your parents take you to Sunday school and other meetings where you hear the good news of salvation. You learn early in life that Jesus loves you and died on the cross to save you from your sins. You know how wonderful heaven is and how awful hell is.
You know that if you die still in your sins, you are lost forever. You also learn that Jesus may come at any minute to take the believers to be with Him in heaven. Those who will be left behind will have no hope of ever being in heaven.
Little Marie was lying awake in bed one night. She listened carefully, but could not hear her parents’ breathing. She was scared and thought, Maybe the Lord Jesus has come and I am left behind. She got up and went to their room to be sure they were still there and that she had not been left behind. Not long after this she trusted in Jesus and is now waiting for Him to come for her along with all the other believers.
Sometimes Ruthie got scared when she heard the gospel preached. She was not sure she was saved. So just in case she had not really meant it the other times, she would ask the Lord Jesus to wash away her sins again. She said, “I was really scared of hell and did NOT want to go there. God used that fear to make me choose heaven, Jesus and eternal life.”
One time she heard the story about the sick woman who touched the hem of Jesus’ clothes and was immediately healed (Luke 8:43-4843And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, 44Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. 45And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? 46And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. 47And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. 48And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace. (Luke 8:43‑48)). Jesus wanted the woman to tell it, so He asked, “Who touched Me?” She was afraid. It must have taken a lot of courage, but she told Jesus in front of all the people that she had touched His clothes so she would be healed. He said, “Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.” Ruthie got peace, too, when she understood that it was faith in Jesus that saves us from our sins.
Tommy’s experience was much like Ruthie’s. He now realizes that he wasn’t sure of being truly saved because he had never confessed Jesus with his mouth - he had never told anyone that Jesus was his Saviour. It was a secret he held in his heart, and no one but God knew. In Romans 10:99That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (Romans 10:9) we learn that both the heart and the mouth are necessary for salvation. “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” When Tommy told someone that Jesus was his Lord and Saviour, Tommy became sure of his salvation.
Faith makes us safe. Telling someone makes us sure and gives peace. Have you confessed that Jesus is your Saviour?
ML-12/17/1995