After a gospel meeting, a woman went to the preacher and said, "You are always saying, 'Take, take!' Is there any place in the Bible where it says, 'Take,' or is it only a word you use? I have been looking in the Bible but cannot find it."
"Why," said the preacher, "the Bible is sealed with it; it is almost the last word in the Bible."
"Well," she said, "I never saw that before. Is that all I have to do?"
"Yes, the Bible says so."
And she took it right away!
All of us at some time in our life have imagined that we had to give God something, but God cannot accept anything we have done or may do in the future as a means of salvation. God is the GIVER; we must be the receivers, and until we TAKE from Him, all the good deeds which we have done are of no account in His holy eyes.
Oh, take with rejoicing from Jesus at once
The life everlasting He gives!
And know with assurance you never can die
Since Jesus, your righteousness, lives.