In his early days, when he was called “Undaunted Dick,” Richard Weaver knelt in prayer. He was to have fought with a man that day, but he met with a more terrible adversary. His body trembled from head to foot while the struggle lasted between the power of darkness and the power of light. In desperate fear of hell, the golden text of the Gospel, John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16), crossed his mind.
“Well,” he said, if ‘God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life,’ that surely means me. What faith was I could not tell, but I heard that it was taking God at His Word, and I trusted in the finished work of my Saviour. The happiness I then enjoyed, I cannot describe. My peace flowed as a river.” There and then Richard Weaver passed from death to life.
ML-09/17/1978