An old apple woman in a country village, after hearing the gospel preached, believed in all its simplicity the wonderful record of God’s love, and rejoiced in her newly-found Saviour, She knew that all her sins were washed away by His precious blood, and that she was saved. One and another tried to shake the old woman’s faith, but in vain. Her stronghold was God’s Word, in which He tells us that His gift is eternal life, and that those accepting Christ shall never perish. And her resting place was the work of the Lord.
A friend, educated in the doubting school, sought to test the old woman’s faith, but her simple reply was, “Jesus was delivered for my offenses, and raised again for my justification.” Thus she stopped his argents as to whether her past sins were forgiven or not.
“Ah! but what about the sins you have committed today?” he asked further.
“Well,” she replied, “when I sin, I go to God and confess what I have done, and He forgives me”; triumphantly adding, “why to be sure, ain’t Jesus a-sitting up there a-purpose?”
May it be yours, dear reader, to know in your inmost soul with this simple woman, that “if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.” Rom. 5:1010For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. (Romans 5:10). For “It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” Rom. 8:3434Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. (Romans 8:34).
ML 03/05/1961