More than eighty years old, with wrinkled brow and whitened hair, she was still without peace and tossed with doubts. Her simple cottage life was often darkened by fears as thoughts of death and eternity ever and again pressed themselves upon her.
Friends had asked me to call on her, so, one afternoon last winter, I looked in upon her. The message of God's love, and Christ's death and resurrection, was again given the matchless story told once more. But still she looked within; still she waited to see or feel some change. So I sought to show my aged friend that feeling followed faith and did not go before it.
Suddenly, while I was yet speaking, a bright gleam of sunshine passed over that clouded face. "Then, sir," she slowly said, "you mean that I'm to take it in the dark?”
"Yes! that is just it," was my reply. "You cannot see it; the blessed ones are those who have not seen, and yet have believed. But, just simply believing what God says about the death of His Son, receive it; yes, as you say, 'take it in the dark.'”
Anxious reader, wait no more for happier feelings. Tarry no more for brighter experiences. But give glory to God, like Abraham of old, by believing what God says because He says it, and thus "take it in the dark." The message is, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31). "All that believe are justified." Acts 13:3939And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. (Acts 13:39).