I had sought faithfully to present Christ to my young soldier-friend, and for my effort got the indifferent answer, "I'll think it over.”
Discouraged, but still anxious about his soul, I pressed the matter. "Harry," said I, "let me illustrate. Suppose you are out with the boys some night on operations, and on the way back you get hard hit. Bill Smith stops long enough to pick you up and carry you back to camp, and for his trouble gets wounded twice. You are both taken to the hospital, and by tender care are won back from the very verge of death.
"Two months later the doctor comes along, helping a poor fellow who limps badly and moves with evident difficulty. They stop at your bedside, and the doctor says: 'Harry, I want to introduce you to Bill Smith, the man who risked his life to save you.'
"Would you fold your arms and say, 'I don't know whether I want to make his acquaintance today or not; I'll think it over'?
"You wouldn't say that, Harry, would you? You would grip him by the hand and try to tell him something of the gratitude you felt. You would want to do all you could to please him.
"Well, now, when I introduced you tonight to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Man from the glory, who not only risked His life but sacrificed it to save you, you proposed to turn your back on Him and say you would think it over. Do you think that is right?”
"No," he said. "I'll accept Him now." And together we knelt while he told the Lord that he there and then accepted Him as his personal Savior, and gave Him thanks.
Friend, your eternal destiny hangs upon your relation to Jesus Christ. It is of vital importance that you should know Him, whom to know is life eternal.
He who suffered and died on the cross for you is now risen and exalted; He is glorified at God's right hand. This is a great fact that vitally affects you, whether you pay heed to it or not. Are you turning your back on Christ?
"Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish." Acts 13:40, 4140Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; 41Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you. (Acts 13:40‑41).
You cannot escape the positive application of this fact to yourself. We have, each one of us, individually, to do with it-or rather it has to do with us. What are you doing with the risen Christ of God?